Military expenditure (% of GDP)

For 2024, Military expenditure (% of GDP) is led by Ukraine at 34.48%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product

Countries ranked 147
Snapshot year 2024
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0.08.617.225.934.5UkraineUkraine: 34.48%34.5IsraelIsrael: 8.78%8.8AlgeriaAlgeria: 7.97%8.0Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia: 7.30%7.3Russian FederationRussian Federation: 7.05%7.1MyanmarMyanmar: 6.79%6.8OmanOman: 5.59%5.6ArmeniaArmenia: 5.48%5.5AzerbaijanAzerbaijan: 4.99%5.0KuwaitKuwait: 4.84%4.8JordanJordan: 4.80%4.8Burkina FasoBurkina Faso: 4.68%4.7
Rank Country Value
51 Belarus 2.07%
52 Guinea 2.05%
53 France 2.05%
54 Albania 2.04%
55 Slovak Republic 2.01%
56 Iran, Islamic Rep. 2.01%
57 Togo 2.00%
58 Sweden 2.00%
59 Mozambique 1.99%
60 South Sudan 1.96%
61 Turkiye 1.92%
62 Czechia 1.92%
63 Netherlands 1.92%
64 Germany 1.89%
65 Australia 1.88%
66 Uganda 1.88%
67 Georgia 1.86%
68 Tajikistan 1.85%
69 Montenegro 1.83%
70 Croatia 1.79%
71 China 1.71%
72 Cyprus 1.65%
73 Italy 1.61%
74 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 1.59%
75 Chile 1.58%
76 Honduras 1.58%
77 Lesotho 1.57%
78 Senegal 1.57%
79 Gabon 1.54%
80 Portugal 1.53%
81 Cambodia 1.52%
82 Kosovo 1.48%
83 Eswatini 1.44%
84 Spain 1.43%
85 Sri Lanka 1.43%
86 Japan 1.37%
87 Bolivia 1.37%
88 Zambia 1.33%
89 Philippines 1.32%
90 Canada 1.31%
91 Fiji 1.31%
92 Slovenia 1.31%
93 Belgium 1.28%
94 Jamaica 1.27%
95 Rwanda 1.25%
96 Congo, Dem. Rep. 1.23%
97 New Zealand 1.19%
98 El Salvador 1.19%
99 Congo, Rep. 1.19%
100 Seychelles 1.18%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Ukraine sits at the top of the Military expenditure (% of GDP) distribution in 2024 at 34.48%, with a lead of 25.70% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Somalia, Fed. Rep. at 1.59%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Haiti (0.07%), and the page currently covers 147 countries.

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