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Military expenditure (% of GDP)

Name: Military expenditure (% of GDP)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, security-conflict-defense, military, expenditure

Compare military expenditure (% of gdp) across 146 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2024.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•146 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

2.2%

Median: 1.6%

Countries Covered

146

with available data

Highest

Ukraine

34.5%

Lowest

Haiti

0.1%

Top 5 Countries

1Ukraine34.5%

2Israel8.8%

3Algeria8.0%

4Saudi Arabia7.3%

5Russian Federation7.1%

By Region

Europe3.1%(31 countries)

Asia2.7%(20 countries)

Other1.9%(73 countries)

Africa1.8%(9 countries)

South America1.7%(7 countries)

Key Findings

•146 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Ukraine has the highest published value (34.4815 %).
•Haiti has the lowest published value (0.0684431 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.1%)High (34.5%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 2.2%)

Europe (31)

Asia (20)

Other (73)

Africa (9)

South America (7)

Oceania (2)

North America (4)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product

Values use one fixed 2024 reference year from World Development Indicators series MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Ukraine	34.5%
2	Israel	8.8%
3	Algeria	8.0%
4	Saudi Arabia	7.3%
5	Russian Federation	7.1%
6	Myanmar	6.8%
7	Oman	5.6%
8	Armenia	5.5%
9	Azerbaijan	5.0%
10	Kuwait	4.8%
11	Jordan	4.8%
12	Burkina Faso	4.7%
13	Mali	4.2%
14	Poland	4.2%
15	Burundi	3.8%
16	Brunei Darussalam	3.6%
17	Morocco	3.5%
18	United States of America	3.4%
19	Estonia	3.4%
20	Colombia	3.4%
21	Latvia	3.3%
22	Greece	3.1%
23	Lithuania	3.1%
24	Chad	3.0%
25	Kyrgyzstan	3.0%
26	Bahrain	2.9%
27	Singapore	2.8%
28	Botswana	2.8%
29	Namibia	2.7%
30	Pakistan	2.7%
31	Timor-Leste	2.7%
32	Serbia	2.6%
33	Lebanon	2.6%
34	South Korea	2.6%
35	Central African Republic	2.5%
36	Tunisia	2.5%
37	Denmark	2.4%
38	Iraq	2.4%
39	Uruguay	2.3%
40	Finland	2.3%
41	Romania	2.3%
42	United Kingdom	2.3%
43	India	2.3%
44	Niger	2.2%
45	Ecuador	2.2%
46	Hungary	2.2%
47	Mauritania	2.2%
48	Bulgaria	2.1%
49	The Republic of North Macedonia	2.1%
50	Norway	2.1%
51	Belarus	2.1%
52	Guinea	2.1%
53	France	2.1%
54	Albania	2.0%
55	Slovakia	2.0%
56	Islamic Republic of Iran	2.0%
57	Togo	2.0%
58	Sweden	2.0%
59	Mozambique	2.0%
60	South Sudan	2.0%
61	Türkiye	1.9%
62	Czech Republic	1.9%
63	Netherlands	1.9%
64	Germany	1.9%
65	Australia	1.9%
66	Uganda	1.9%
67	Georgia	1.9%
68	Tajikistan	1.8%
69	Montenegro	1.8%
70	Croatia	1.8%
71	People's Republic of China	1.7%
72	Cyprus	1.6%
73	Italy	1.6%
74	Somalia	1.6%
75	Chile	1.6%
76	Honduras	1.6%
77	Lesotho	1.6%
78	Senegal	1.6%
79	Gabon	1.5%
80	Portugal	1.5%
81	Cambodia	1.5%
82	Eswatini	1.4%
83	Spain	1.4%
84	Sri Lanka	1.4%
85	Japan	1.4%
86	Bolivia	1.4%
87	Zambia	1.3%
88	Philippines	1.3%
89	Canada	1.3%
90	Fiji	1.3%
91	Slovenia	1.3%
92	Belgium	1.3%
93	Jamaica	1.3%
94	Rwanda	1.2%
95	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.2%
96	New Zealand	1.2%
97	El Salvador	1.2%
98	Republic of the Congo	1.2%
99	Seychelles	1.2%
100	United Republic of Tanzania	1.2%
101	Thailand	1.1%
102	Malawi	1.0%
103	Cameroon	1.0%
104	Angola	1.0%
105	Austria	1.0%
106	Kenya	1.0%
107	Malaysia	1.0%
108	Equatorial Guinea	1.0%
109	Nepal	1.0%
110	Brazil	1.0%
111	Luxembourg	1.0%
112	Bangladesh	0.9%
113	Paraguay	0.9%
114	Trinidad and Tobago	0.9%
115	Peru	0.9%
116	Belize	0.9%
117	Mexico	0.9%
118	Guyana	0.9%
119	Dominican Republic	0.8%
120	Indonesia	0.8%
121	Cote d'Ivoire	0.8%
122	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.7%
123	Mongolia	0.7%
124	Benin	0.7%
125	Switzerland	0.7%
126	Liberia	0.7%
127	Madagascar	0.7%
128	South Africa	0.7%
129	Egypt	0.7%
130	Ethiopia	0.7%
131	Cape Verde	0.6%
132	Argentina	0.6%
133	Moldova, Republic of	0.6%
134	Republic of The Gambia	0.6%
135	Nigeria	0.6%
136	Nicaragua	0.5%
137	Sierra Leone	0.5%
138	Malta	0.5%
139	Kazakhstan	0.4%
140	Ghana	0.4%
141	Guatemala	0.4%
142	Zimbabwe	0.4%
143	Papua New Guinea	0.3%
144	Ireland	0.2%
145	Mauritius	0.1%
146	Haiti	0.1%

Showing 146 of 146 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2024).

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