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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.
Rank Country Global Militarization Index (GMI) Military Expenditure Index Score People Index Score Heavy Weapons Index Score 1 Ukraine 335: 5.11: 1.29: 1.75
The UAE, for which recent data is not available, has also spent historically large amounts of money on the military on a per capita basis. The UAE had a per capita spending of $2470 per person back in 2014, making it the second highest spender in that year just after Saudi Arabia, [ 1 ] but by 2020 that number had fallen to $2204.
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.
If there is no data for a particular year, a cell is left blank. Although the database includes statistics for over 150 countries, per SIPRI's Terms and Condition permission is needed to directly reproduce more than 10% of the database.
10.07 Sweden: 33 22 11 3.13 74 Mali: 31 25 6 1.38 75 Brunei: 29 27 2 65.11 76 United States: 27 25 2 0.08 77 Philippines: 26 17 9 0.23 Switzerland: 26 21 5 2.90 79 Australia: 25 18 7 0.93 Bolivia: 25 18 7 2.08 Romania: 25 21 4 1.31 82 Mexico: 20 12 8 0.15 83 Honduras: 18 11 7 1.85 84 Chile: 15 8 7 0.75 85 Kyrgyzstan: 14 10 4 1.97 86 Netherlands ...
According to the report, Sri Lanka was the most militarized of the South Asian countries, with 8,000 military personnel per million population. In terms of military expenditure as percentage of GDP, Sri Lanka had the largest expenditure in the region. The country's defense expenditure is also higher than in other comparable conflict-ridden ...
All of the 172 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers such as the two Koreas and Vietnam, include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel. Some countries, such as Italy and Japan, have only volunteers in their armed forces