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World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP)

Published by SIPRI and carried by the World Bank.

AFG: 1.82793AGO: 1.00049ALB: 2.03786ARE: 5.64365ARG: 0.61835ARM: 5.48175AUS: 1.88379AUT: 0.999843AZE: 4.99292BDI: 3.80128BEL: 1.27705BEN: 0.72055BFA: 4.67973BGD: 0.941321BGR: 2.14947BIH: 0.74708BLR: 2.07365BLZ: 0.898886BOL: 1.37066BRA: 0.972775BRN: 3.57782BWA: 2.83393CAF: 2.51969CAN: 1.31303CHE: 0.717812CHL: 1.5778CHN: 1.7113CIV: 0.762359CMR: 1.00913COD: 1.22855COG: 1.18596COL: 3.35903CUB: 2.87621CYP: 1.64735CZE: 1.91681DEU: 1.8919DJI: 2.62758DNK: 2.41617DOM: 0.78242DZA: 7.97146ECU: 2.22195EGY: 0.665264ERI: 20.8657ESP: 1.43211EST: 3.374ETH: 0.650506FIN: 2.29979FJI: 1.31288FRA: 2.05258GAB: 1.53821GBR: 2.27862GEO: 1.86403GHA: 0.383994GIN: 2.0537GMB: 0.57444GNB: 1.23488GNQ: 0.982186GRC: 3.12798GTM: 0.367622GUY: 0.868162HND: 1.57536HRV: 1.79323HTI: 0.0684431HUN: 2.15631IDN: 0.779217IND: 2.2712IRL: 0.239096IRN: 2.01043IRQ: 2.35714ISR: 8.77672ITA: 1.60925JAM: 1.27386JOR: 4.80019JPN: 1.3714KAZ: 0.428428KEN: 0.999547KGZ: 2.9662KHM: 1.52066KOR: 2.56205KWT: 4.84093LAO: 0.189895LBN: 2.58829LBR: 0.711207LBY: 5.28705LKA: 1.42539LSO: 1.56745LTU: 3.11817LUX: 0.962679LVA: 3.25799MAR: 3.51575MDA: 0.597781MDG: 0.708648MEX: 0.893258MKD: 2.10353MLI: 4.19815MMR: 6.79452MNE: 1.83254MNG: 0.742307MOZ: 1.9933MRT: 2.15505MWI: 1.02496MYS: 0.987557NAM: 2.7349NER: 2.24178NGA: 0.555429NIC: 0.545131NLD: 1.91643NOR: 2.09124NPL: 0.979452NZL: 1.19405OMN: 5.5942PAK: 2.6676PAN: 0.974137PER: 0.909289PHL: 1.32427PNG: 0.307996POL: 4.15439PRT: 1.53227PRY: 0.933106QAT: 6.50021ROU: 2.29815RUS: 7.05234RWA: 1.24772SAU: 7.2981SDN: 0.925377SEN: 1.56648SLE: 0.46254SLV: 1.18612SOM: 1.58578SRB: 2.59514SSD: 1.96171SVK: 2.01078SVN: 1.31001SWE: 1.99772SWZ: 1.44407SYR: 4.05614TCD: 2.98485TGO: 1.99877THA: 1.07876TJK: 1.84775TKM: 2.90187TLS: 2.66416TTO: 0.921416TUN: 2.50637TUR: 1.92255TZA: 1.15462UGA: 1.8816UKR: 34.4815URY: 2.31054USA: 3.41922UZB: 2.86662VEN: 0.500704VNM: 1.8065YEM: 3.96689ZAF: 0.700151ZMB: 1.33268ZWE: 0.351195
Most recent year reported for each state, shaded by quintile — not by equal steps, because this indicator spans orders of magnitude and equal steps would paint almost every state the same. Equal Earth projection, which is equal-area: a map that inflates area would shade with it. 157 states drawn.

6 member states have a figure and no shape on this map. The outlines come from Natural Earth’s 110m dataset, which has no polygon for a state below a certain size, and almost all of these are small island or micro-states. They are not missing from the data — only from the picture: Bahrain, Cabo Verde, Malta, Mauritius, Singapore, Seychelles.

How the World Bank defines it

Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product

World Bank, World Development Indicators — MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS, CC BY 4.0.

Highest

StateValueYear
Ukraine 34.48152024
Eritrea 20.86572003
Israel 8.776722024
Algeria 7.971462024
Saudi Arabia 7.29812024
Russian Federation 7.052342024
Myanmar 6.794522024
Qatar 6.500212022
United Arab Emirates 5.643652014
Oman 5.59422024
Armenia 5.481752024
Libya 5.287052023
Azerbaijan 4.992922024
Kuwait 4.840932024
Jordan 4.800192024

Lowest

StateValueYear
Haiti 0.06844312024
Mauritius 0.1495912024
Lao PDR 0.1898952013
Ireland 0.2390962024
Papua New Guinea 0.3079962024
Zimbabwe 0.3511952024
Guatemala 0.3676222024
Ghana 0.3839942024
Kazakhstan 0.4284282024
Malta 0.4511232024
Sierra Leone 0.462542024
Venezuela, RB 0.5007042023
Nicaragua 0.5451312024
Nigeria 0.5554292024
Gambia, The 0.574442024

Each state is shown at the most recent year it reports, which is not the same year for every state. Comparing a 2025 figure with a 2019 one is comparing different years, and this table does not pretend otherwise.

Where the numbers come from

SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), uri: https://www.sipri.org/databases

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