World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP): Malawi

Most recent: 1.025 (2024)
Earliest: 0.702 (1965)
Highest: 4.066 (1979)
Years reported: 60
Member state: Malawi at the United Nations

Military expenditure (% of GDP), 1965–2024. 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	1.025
2023	1.165
2022	0.9332
2021	0.7303
2020	0.8343
2019	0.7608
2018	0.5895
2017	0.5301
2016	0.452
2015	0.4508
2014	0.5808
2013	0.8098
2012	0.5438
2011	0.4686
2010	0.5101
2009	0.6745
2008	0.5935
2007	0.5383
2006	0.5523
2005	0.7424
2004	0.4488
2003	0.2903
2002	0.301
2001	0.3035
2000	0.2755
1999	0.3322
1998	0.3386
1997	0.4061
1996	0.3618
1995	0.3238
1994	0.5824
1993	0.5089
1992	0.5744
1991	0.4406
1990	0.5758
1989	0.6131
1988	0.619
1987	0.7637
1986	0.8582
1985	0.7172
1984	0.6387
1983	0.7438
1982	0.9364
1981	1.274
1980	1.758
1979	4.066
1978	2.695
1977	1.69
1976	1.373
1975	1.527
1974	0.967
1973	1.06
1972	0.6022
1971	0.5815
1970	0.6411
1969	0.668
1968	0.6954
1967	0.7169
1966	0.6458
1965	0.702

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