World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP): Italy

Most recent: 1.609 (2024)
Earliest: 2.714 (1960)
Highest: 2.989 (1966)
Years reported: 65
Member state: Italy 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.

Every year reported

Year	Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2024	1.609
2023	1.606
2022	1.652
2021	1.663
2020	1.73
2019	1.306
2018	1.354
2017	1.351
2016	1.328
2015	1.202
2014	1.276
2013	1.392
2012	1.419
2011	1.468
2010	1.494
2009	1.547
2008	1.53
2007	1.441
2006	1.514
2005	1.595
2004	1.672
2003	1.698
2002	1.694
2001	1.667
2000	1.733
1999	1.675
1998	1.636
1997	1.619
1996	1.581
1995	1.46
1994	1.714
1993	1.787
1992	1.752
1991	1.859
1990	1.881
1989	2.026
1988	2.073
1987	2.06
1986	1.977
1985	1.936
1984	2.009
1983	2.017
1982	2.005
1981	1.821
1980	1.764
1979	1.874
1978	1.88
1977	1.891
1976	1.828
1975	1.975
1974	2.071
1973	2.196
1972	2.391
1971	2.239
1970	2.058
1969	2.422
1968	2.649
1967	2.768
1966	2.989
1965	2.748
1964	2.727
1963	2.753
1962	2.634
1961	2.574
1960	2.714

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