World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP): Eswatini

Most recent: 1.444 (2024)
Earliest: 1.782 (1977)
Highest: 2.458 (1979)
Years reported: 48
Member state: Eswatini 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	1.444
2023	1.384
2022	1.655
2021	1.679
2020	1.855
2019	1.89
2018	2.096
2017	1.924
2016	2.074
2015	1.75
2014	1.823
2013	1.952
2012	1.915
2011	2.219
2010	2.367
2009	2.091
2008	1.999
2007	1.644
2006	1.673
2005	2.033
2004	1.58
2003	1.477
2002	1.394
2001	1.256
2000	1.46
1999	1.685
1998	1.647
1997	1.495
1996	1.653
1995	1.693
1994	1.818
1993	1.748
1992	1.633
1991	1.385
1990	1.276
1989	1.253
1988	1.26
1987	1.429
1986	1.635
1985	1.841
1984	2.031
1983	2.256
1982	2.2
1981	2.166
1980	2.424
1979	2.458
1978	2.433
1977	1.782

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