World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP): China

Most recent: 1.711 (2024)
Earliest: 2.447 (1989)
Highest: 2.454 (1990)
Years reported: 36
Member state: China at the United Nations

Military expenditure (% of GDP), 1989–2024. 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	1.711
2023	1.665
2022	1.631
2021	1.605
2020	1.757
2019	1.683
2018	1.674
2017	1.711
2016	1.769
2015	1.777
2014	1.738
2013	1.714
2012	1.701
2011	1.659
2010	1.734
2009	1.894
2008	1.716
2007	1.75
2006	1.87
2005	1.872
2004	1.939
2003	1.996
2002	2.059
2001	1.983
2000	1.836
1999	1.871
1998	1.655
1997	1.633
1996	1.653
1995	1.686
1994	1.693
1993	1.928
1992	2.45
1991	2.311
1990	2.454
1989	2.447

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