Mexico - Military expenditure

Military expenditure (current USD)

The latest value for Military expenditure (current USD) in Mexico was 6,116,377,000 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 6,758,694,000 in 2014 and 84,000,000 in 1960.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 84,000,000
1961 86,400,000
1962 99,200,000
1963 112,000,000
1964 120,000,000
1965 119,200,000
1966 130,400,000
1967 133,600,000
1968 148,800,000
1969 180,000,000
1970 176,800,000
1971 191,200,000
1972 242,400,000
1973 300,800,000
1974 407,200,000
1975 504,800,000
1976 531,577,000
1977 437,693,000
1978 518,287,200
1979 679,663,600
1980 810,422,200
1981 1,284,949,000
1982 858,130,200
1983 778,556,800
1984 1,155,945,000
1985 1,241,864,000
1986 817,296,600
1987 813,391,600
1988 981,914,600
1989 1,153,376,000
1990 1,210,872,000
1991 1,459,136,000
1992 1,824,550,000
1993 2,122,980,000
1994 2,635,284,000
1995 1,562,615,000
1996 1,882,873,000
1997 2,184,061,000
1998 2,263,224,000
1999 2,652,912,000
2000 3,031,454,000
2001 3,229,469,000
2002 3,172,269,000
2003 2,960,497,000
2004 2,854,386,000
2005 3,123,455,000
2006 3,035,131,000
2007 4,223,038,000
2008 4,334,654,000
2009 4,514,234,000
2010 4,789,031,000
2011 5,498,459,000
2012 5,717,036,000
2013 6,473,144,000
2014 6,758,694,000
2015 5,468,838,000
2016 5,336,876,000
2017 5,062,076,000
2018 5,839,521,000
2019 6,650,808,000
2020 6,116,377,000

Military expenditure (current LCU)

The value for Military expenditure (current LCU) in Mexico was 125,754,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 125,754,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 1,050,000 in 1960.

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
1960 1,050,000
1961 1,080,000
1962 1,240,000
1963 1,400,000
1964 1,500,000
1965 1,490,000
1966 1,630,000
1967 1,670,000
1968 1,860,000
1969 2,250,000
1970 2,210,000
1971 2,390,000
1972 3,030,000
1973 3,760,000
1974 5,090,000
1975 6,310,000
1976 8,200,000
1977 9,880,000
1978 11,800,000
1979 15,500,000
1980 18,600,000
1981 31,500,000
1982 48,400,000
1983 93,500,000
1984 194,000,000
1985 319,000,000
1986 500,000,000
1987 1,121,000,000
1988 2,232,000,000
1989 2,839,000,000
1990 3,405,700,000
1991 4,404,300,000
1992 5,646,800,000
1993 6,614,400,000
1994 8,894,401,000
1995 10,031,100,000
1996 14,308,800,000
1997 17,294,400,000
1998 20,676,900,000
1999 25,362,900,000
2000 28,664,100,000
2001 30,170,800,000
2002 30,631,300,000
2003 31,940,800,000
2004 32,214,600,000
2005 34,039,100,000
2006 33,080,500,000
2007 46,150,200,000
2008 48,243,400,000
2009 61,003,100,000
2010 60,514,200,000
2011 68,309,000,000
2012 75,290,500,000
2013 82,675,000,000
2014 89,839,600,000
2015 86,671,600,000
2016 99,651,800,000
2017 95,744,900,000
2018 112,328,000,000
2019 125,754,000,000

Military expenditure (% of GDP)

Military expenditure (% of GDP) in Mexico was 0.574 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 0.719 in 1963, while its lowest value was 0.311 in 2006.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 0.674
1961 0.652
1962 0.690
1963 0.719
1964 0.678
1965 0.591
1966 0.576
1967 0.545
1968 0.549
1969 0.600
1970 0.497
1971 0.488
1972 0.537
1973 0.544
1974 0.566
1975 0.574
1976 0.598
1977 0.534
1978 0.505
1979 0.505
1980 0.416
1981 0.513
1982 0.495
1983 0.523
1984 0.660
1985 0.676
1986 0.635
1987 0.580
1988 0.536
1989 0.517
1990 0.433
1991 0.435
1992 0.469
1993 0.443
1994 0.519
1995 0.451
1996 0.476
1997 0.458
1998 0.450
1999 0.461
2000 0.446
2001 0.443
2002 0.422
2003 0.406
2004 0.365
2005 0.356
2006 0.311
2007 0.401
2008 0.391
2009 0.502
2010 0.453
2011 0.466
2012 0.476
2013 0.508
2014 0.514
2015 0.467
2016 0.495
2017 0.437
2018 0.478
2019 0.523
2020 0.574

Military expenditure (% of general government expenditure)

Military expenditure (% of general government expenditure) in Mexico was 1.91 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 30 years was 2.51 in 1994, while its lowest value was 1.38 in 2006.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1990 1.72
1991 1.97
1992 2.24
1993 2.20
1994 2.51
1995 2.18
1996 2.09
1997 2.01
1998 2.08
1999 2.09
2000 2.11
2001 2.08
2002 1.98
2003 1.80
2004 1.70
2005 1.61
2006 1.38
2007 1.70
2008 1.41
2009 1.80
2010 1.64
2011 1.68
2012 1.69
2013 1.83
2014 1.84
2015 1.70
2016 1.81
2017 1.70
2018 1.86
2019 2.00
2020 1.91

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Defense & arms trade