World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP): Lesotho

Most recent: 1.567 (2024)
Earliest: 1.552 (1976)
Highest: 4.84 (1986)
Years reported: 49
Member state: Lesotho at the United Nations

Military expenditure (% of GDP), 1976–2024. 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	1.567
2023	1.625
2022	1.473
2021	1.536
2020	1.881
2019	1.875
2018	1.999
2017	2.271
2016	1.964
2015	1.866
2014	1.954
2013	2.027
2012	2.148
2011	2.256
2010	3.163
2009	2.723
2008	1.548
2007	2.368
2006	2.074
2005	2.049
2004	2.132
2003	2.369
2002	2.516
2001	2.744
2000	3.285
1999	3.562
1998	2.852
1997	2.712
1996	2.825
1995	3.242
1994	2.741
1993	2.475
1992	2.706
1991	2.889
1990	3.55
1989	4.308
1988	3.37
1987	4.181
1986	4.84
1985	4.314
1984	3.979
1983	4.013
1982	4.358
1981	3.312
1980	3.159
1979	1.851
1978	1.506
1977	1.438
1976	1.552

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