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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
101 Tanzania 1.15%
102 Thailand 1.08%
103 Malawi 1.02%
104 Cameroon 1.01%
105 Angola 1.00%
106 Austria 1.00%
107 Kenya 1.00%
108 Malaysia 0.99%
109 Equatorial Guinea 0.98%
110 Nepal 0.98%
111 Brazil 0.97%
112 Luxembourg 0.96%
113 Bangladesh 0.94%
114 Paraguay 0.93%
115 Trinidad and Tobago 0.92%
116 Peru 0.91%
117 Belize 0.90%
118 Mexico 0.89%
119 Guyana 0.87%
120 Dominican Republic 0.78%
121 Indonesia 0.78%
122 Cote d'Ivoire 0.76%
123 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.75%
124 Mongolia 0.74%
125 Benin 0.72%
126 Switzerland 0.72%
127 Liberia 0.71%
128 Madagascar 0.71%
129 South Africa 0.70%
130 Egypt, Arab Rep. 0.67%
131 Ethiopia 0.65%
132 Cabo Verde 0.62%
133 Argentina 0.62%
134 Moldova 0.60%
135 Gambia, The 0.57%
136 Nigeria 0.56%
137 Nicaragua 0.55%
138 Sierra Leone 0.46%
139 Malta 0.45%
140 Kazakhstan 0.43%
141 Ghana 0.38%
142 Guatemala 0.37%
143 Zimbabwe 0.35%
144 Papua New Guinea 0.31%
145 Ireland 0.24%
146 Mauritius 0.15%
147 Haiti 0.07%
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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