This is a list of countries by military expenditure in a given year.
Military expenditure
A military budget (or military expenditure), also known as a defense budget, is the amount of financial resources dedicated by a state to raising and maintaining an armed forces or other methods essential for defense purposes.
Financing militar ...
figures are presented in
United States dollar
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s based on either constant or current exchange rates.
Military expenditure, total
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 2022 fact sheet
The first list is based on the SIPRI fact sheet which includes a list of the world's top 15 military spenders in 2022, based on current market exchange rates.
The second list is based on the 2022 edition of "The Military Balance" published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) using average market exchange rates.
Russian and Chinese military spending are actually far higher than the chart due to
captive markets and
Purchasing Price Parity in those countries.
Military expenditure, share of GDP
This first list is a list of countries by
military expenditure
A military budget (or military expenditure), also known as a defense budget, is the amount of financial resources dedicated by a state to raising and maintaining an armed forces or other methods essential for defense purposes.
Financing militar ...
share of GDP—more specifically, a list of the top 15 countries by percentage share in recent years—the amount spent by a nation on its military as a share of its GDP.
The second list presents this as a share of the general government expenditure. The first list is sourced from the SIPRI for the year 2019 and from Military Balance 2017 published by
International Institute for Strategic Studies for the year 2016. The second list is sourced only from the SIPRI for the year 2019.
As a share of GDP
Notes
[SIPRI estimate.]
[The figures for Saudi Arabia include expenditure for public order and safety and might be slightly overestimated.]
See also
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Arms industry
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Military budget
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Past military expenditure by country
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List of countries by military expenditure per capita
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List of countries by Global Militarization Index
This list of countries by Global Militarization Index is based on the 2017 Global Militarization Index of the Bonn International Center for Conversion.__TOC__
Global Militarization Index
The Global Militarization Index (GMI) depicts the relative ...
References
External links
SIPRI military expenditure database(sipri.org)
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Military
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...
Military
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...
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