World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.
RU EN

Cameroon
Military expenditure (% of GDP)

Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product

Global rank#104out of 147 countries
Go to rankingOpenglobal ranking and map

Historical trend

2.01.71.51.20.9197019972024Cameroon · 2024: 1.01%Cameroon

Analytical takeaways

  • Cameroon records 1.01% for Military expenditure (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #104 globally out of 147 countries.
  • Military expenditure (% of GDP) declined from 1.87% in 1970 to 1.01% in 2024, a decrease of 0.86%.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

Comparison

Use the comparison tool or canonical pair-vs-pair pages to compare this country on the same indicator.