World Development Indicators

Military expenditure (% of GDP): Nicaragua

Most recent: 0.5451 (2024)
Earliest: 1.46 (1968)
Highest: 4.336 (1981)
Years reported: 48 of 57 in the span
Member state: Nicaragua at the United Nations

Military expenditure (% of GDP), 1968–2024. 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.

The World Bank reports 48 of the 57 years between 1968 and 2024 for Nicaragua. The missing 9 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2024	0.5451
2023	0.5547
2022	0.5371
2021	0.5498
2020	0.63
2019	0.605
2018	0.6272
2017	0.6265
2016	0.6399
2015	0.7755
2014	0.6851
2013	0.6786
2012	0.6659
2011	0.5264
2010	0.5055
2009	0.5028
2008	0.5021
2007	0.5317
2006	0.5513
2005	0.7004
2004	0.7308
2003	0.8607
2002	0.8652
2001	0.6835
2000	0.7828
1999	0.7195
1998	0.7354
1997	0.8947
1996	0.9497
1995	1.103
1994	1.19
1993	2.102
1992	2.633
1991	4.002
1981	4.336
1980	3.346
1979	3.105
1978	3.222
1977	2.465
1976	2.067
1975	1.746
1974	1.453
1973	1.421
1972	1.867
1971	1.506
1970	1.584
1969	1.377
1968	1.46

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