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The following lists are of countries by military spending as a share of GDP—more specifically, a list of the 15 countries with the highest share in recent years. The first list uses the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute as a source, while the second list gets its data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Figures for the tables below are provided by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) database. They are presented in millions of United States dollars in current prices, converted at the exchange rate for the given year. [1] If there is no data for a particular year, a cell is left blank.
This list is sourced from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) for the year 2020. As of 2021, the top five per capita spenders are Qatar (~$3955), Israel (~$2770), United States (~$2405), Kuwait (~$2085) and Singapore (~$1885). All five countries have increased their spending since the previous year (2020).
Getty Images For the first time since 1998, global military spending is down. This coincides with a major decline in U.S. spending, which fell by more than $40 billion between 2011 and 2012. Even ...
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm. It was founded in 1966 [1] and provides data, analysis and recommendations for armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade as well as disarmament and arms control. The research is based on open sources and is directed to decision ...
As of 2024, the official military budget was announced to be 1.67 trillion yuan, the second largest in the world behind the US. [1] According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, China became the world's fifth largest exporter of major arms in 2014–18, an increase of 2.7 per cent from the period 2010–2014. China ...
Russia, for decades Vietnam's top provider of weapons, markedly reduced its global arms exports last year, SIPRI data show, and Vietnam has struggled to pay for Russian weapons without breaching U ...
Soviet and early Chinese estimates are uncertain due to difficulties with estimating values in planned economies. Therefore SIPRI in 1986 chose to stop publishing estimates for Soviet and China. Since there is no single source for the whole time period, SIPRI and ACDA data have been combined. ACDA data was used for Soviet 1986-90 and China 1976-89.