Yemen - Military expenditure (current LCU)

The value for Military expenditure (current LCU) in Yemen was 368,500,000,000 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 368,500,000,000 in 2014 and a minimum value of 9,693,000,000 in 1990.

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
1990 9,693,000,000
1991 12,349,000,000
1992 15,696,000,000
1993 18,441,000,000
1994 28,263,000,000
1995 32,912,000,000
1996 39,170,000,000
1997 51,334,000,000
1998 52,247,000,000
1999 61,548,000,000
2000 76,600,000,000
2001 91,100,000,000
2002 129,500,000,000
2003 148,100,000,000
2004 135,900,000,000
2005 156,200,000,000
2006 162,000,000,000
2007 209,000,000,000
2008 239,000,000,000
2009 288,200,000,000
2010 318,000,000,000
2011 344,700,000,000
2012 347,000,000,000
2013 354,300,000,000
2014 368,500,000,000

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