World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP): Botswana

Most recent: 2.834 (2024)
Earliest: 1.357 (1977)
Highest: 4.933 (1993)
Years reported: 48
Member state: Botswana at the United Nations

Military expenditure (% of GDP), 1977–2024. 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.

Every year reported

Year	Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2024	2.834
2023	2.456
2022	2.518
2021	3.046
2020	3.335
2019	3.081
2018	2.925
2017	3.249
2016	3.411
2015	2.825
2014	2.212
2013	2.147
2012	2.344
2011	2.404
2010	2.759
2009	3.263
2008	3.098
2007	2.9
2006	2.755
2005	2.858
2004	3.506
2003	4.007
2002	4.11
2001	3.831
2000	3.191
1999	3.092
1998	3.779
1997	3.197
1996	2.9
1995	3.506
1994	4.008
1993	4.933
1992	4.483
1991	4.603
1990	4.445
1989	3.569
1988	4.9
1987	4.794
1986	2.664
1985	2.185
1984	2.437
1983	2.326
1982	2.695
1981	2.978
1980	3.208
1979	3.501
1978	2.875
1977	1.357

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