Guyana - Military expenditure (current LCU)

The value for Military expenditure (current LCU) in Guyana was 14,150,900,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14,150,900,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 10,600,000 in 1973.

Definition: Military expenditures data from SIPRI are derived from the NATO definition, which includes all current and capital expenditures on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces; defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects; paramilitary forces, if these are judged to be trained and equipped for military operations; and military space activities. Such expenditures include military and civil personnel, including retirement pensions of military personnel and social services for personnel; operation and maintenance; procurement; military research and development; and military aid (in the military expenditures of the donor country). Excluded are civil defense and current expenditures for previous military activities, such as for veterans' benefits, demobilization, conversion, and destruction of weapons. This definition cannot be applied for all countries, however, since that would require much more detailed information than is available about what is included in military budgets and off-budget military expenditure items. (For example, military budgets might or might not cover civil defense, reserves and auxiliary forces, police and paramilitary forces, dual-purpose forces such as military and civilian police, military grants in kind, pensions for military personnel, and social security contributions paid by one part of government to another.)

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.

Year Value
1973 10,600,000
1974 24,800,000
1975 76,400,000
1976 86,700,000
1977 61,900,000
1978 44,200,000
1979 43,800,000
1980 55,800,000
1981 63,000,000
1982 74,130,000
1983 66,300,000
1984 79,470,000
1985 165,700,000
1986 118,900,000
1987 103,600,000
1989 163,600,000
1990 141,898,000
1991 227,130,000
1992 453,176,000
1993 562,241,000
1994 758,597,000
1995 808,139,000
1996 780,252,000
2000 2,296,000,000
2001 2,692,000,000
2002 3,175,000,000
2003 3,169,000,000
2004 4,389,000,000
2005 3,699,000,000
2006 3,839,000,000
2007 5,053,000,000
2008 6,215,000,000
2009 6,333,800,000
2010 6,328,000,000
2011 6,613,600,000
2012 6,854,700,000
2013 7,222,369,000
2014 8,109,523,000
2015 9,587,900,000
2016 10,683,500,000
2017 12,289,000,000
2018 12,937,400,000
2019 14,150,900,000

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Data for some countries are based on partial or uncertain data or rough estimates. For additional details please refer to the military expenditure database on the SIPRI website: https://sipri.org/databases/milex

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Defense & arms trade