World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP): Benin

Most recent: 0.7205 (2024)
Earliest: 0.8716 (1960)
Highest: 2.182 (1964)
Years reported: 53 of 65 in the span
Member state: Benin at the United Nations

Military expenditure (% of GDP), 1960–2024. Bars, not a line: a line drawn across a year the source does not report would invent an observation a reader could not tell from a measured one.

The World Bank reports 53 of the 65 years between 1960 and 2024 for Benin. The missing 12 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2024	0.7205
2023	0.7576
2022	0.6321
2021	0.5509
2020	0.4588
2019	0.4733
2018	0.6329
2017	0.9206
2016	0.6736
2015	0.7985
2014	0.7009
2013	0.6872
2012	0.7021
2008	0.664
2006	0.6657
2005	0.681
2004	0.6761
2003	0.6472
2002	0.6228
2001	0.358
2000	0.4129
1999	0.4854
1990	1.225
1989	1.308
1988	1.564
1987	1.57
1986	1.355
1985	1.305
1984	1.459
1983	1.189
1982	1.049
1981	1.551
1980	2.032
1979	1.93
1978	1.194
1977	1.679
1976	1.282
1975	1.493
1974	1.442
1973	1.678
1972	1.488
1971	1.601
1970	1.625
1969	1.895
1968	2.072
1967	1.976
1966	1.9
1965	2.107
1964	2.182
1963	1.737
1962	1.752
1961	1.395
1960	0.8716

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