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.