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List of countries with highest military expenditures

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This is a list of countries with the highest military expenditure in a given year. Military expenditure figures are presented in United States dollars based on either constant or current exchange rates.^[1]

Global military expenditure in 2022

Highest military expenditure, total

The first list is based on the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) fact sheet, which includes a list of the world's top 40 military spenders as of 2022, based on current market exchange rates.^[1]

The second list is based on the 2024 edition of The Military Balance, published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) using average market exchange rates.^[2]

Some sources say that Russian and Chinese military spending are actually far higher than the chart due to captive markets and Purchasing Price Parity in those countries.^[3]^[4]

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40 Countries with the highest military spending worldwide in 2022^[1]
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database^[5]

List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies

2024 edition of "The Military Balance" from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)^[2]

Rank	Country	Spending (US$ bn)	% of GDP	% of global spending
	World total	2,240	2.2	100
01	United States	877.0	3.5	39
02	China^{[lower-alpha 1]}	292.0	1.6	13
03	Russia	86.4	4.1	3.9
04	India	81.4	2.4	3.6
05	Saudi Arabia^{[lower-alpha 1]}^{[lower-alpha 2]}	75.0	7.4	3.3
06	United Kingdom	68.5	2.2	3.1
07	Germany	55.8	1.4	2.5
08	France^{[lower-alpha 3]}	53.6	1.9	2.4
09	South Korea	46.4	2.7	2.1
100	Japan	46.0	1.1	2.1
11	Ukraine	44.0	34	2.0
12	Italy	33.5	1.7	1.5
13	Australia	32.3	1.9	1.4
14	Canada	26.9	1.2	1.2
15	Israel	23.4	4.5	1.0
16	Spain	20.3	1.5	0.9
17	Brazil	20.2	1.1	0.9
18	Poland^{[lower-alpha 3]}	16.6	2.4	0.7
19	Netherlands	15.6	1.6	0.7
20	Qatar	15.4	7.0	0.7
21	Taiwan	12.5	1.6	0.6
22	Singapore	11.7	2.8	0.5
23	Turkey	10.6	1.2	0.5
24	Pakistan	10.3	2.6	0.5
25	Colombia	9.9	3.1	0.4
26	Algeria	9.1	4.8	0.4
27	Indonesia	9.0	0.7	0.4
28	Mexico	8.5	0.6	0.4
29	Norway	8.4	1.6	0.4
30	Kuwait	8.2	4.5	0.4
31	Greece	8.1	3.7	0.4
32	Sweden	7.7	1.3	0.3
33	Belgium	6.9	1.2	0.3
34	Iran	6.8	2.6	0.3
35	Switzerland	6.1	0.8	0.3
36	Oman	5.8	5.2	0.3
37	Thailand	5.7	1.2	0.3
38	Chile	5.6	1.8	0.2
39	Denmark	5.5	1.2	0.2
40	Romania	5.2	1.7	0.2

Rank	Country	Spending (US$ bn)
01	United States	905.5
02	China	(PPP) ε407.9
03	Russia	(PPP) ε294.6
04	India	73.6
05	United Kingdom	ε73.5
06	Saudi Arabia	69.1
07	Germany	63.7
08	France	60.0
09	Japan	49.0
10	South Korea	43.8
11	Australia	34.4
12	Italy	32.7
13	Ukraine	31.1
14	Brazil	24.2
15	Canada	24.2
16	Poland	23.5
17	United Arab Emirates	20.7
18	Israel	19.2
19	Spain	19
20	Taiwan	18.9

Highest military expenditure, share of GDP

This first list is a list of countries by military expenditure share of GDP—more specifically, a list of the top 15 countries by percentage share in recent years—the amount spent by a nation on its military as a share of its GDP.

The second list presents this as a share of the general government expenditure. The first list is sourced from the SIPRI for the year 2019 and from Military Balance 2017 published by International Institute for Strategic Studies for the year 2016. The second list is sourced only from the SIPRI for the year 2019.

As a share of GDP

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List by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database^[6](2022)

List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Top 15 Defence Budgets 2020^[7]

Rank	Country	% of GDP
1	Ukraine	33.55%
2	Saudi Arabia	7.42%
3	Qatar	6.96%
4	Togo	5.44%
5	Oman	5.17%
6	Jordan	4.84%
7	Algeria	4.78%
8	Azerbaijan	4.55%
9	Kuwait	4.53%
10	Israel	4.51%
11	Armenia	4.32%
12	Russia	4.06%*
13	Morocco	3.90%
14	Greece	3.69%
15	United States	3.45%


Rank	Country	% of GDP
01	Oman	12.0
02	Afghanistan	10.6
03	Lebanon	10.5
04	Kuwait	7.1
05	Saudi Arabia	7.1
06	Algeria	6.7
07	Iraq	5.8
08	UAE	5.6
09	Azerbaijan	5.4
10	Morocco	5.3
11	Israel	5.2
12	Jordan	4.9
13	Armenia	4.8
14	Mali	4.5
15	Qatar	4.4

* Bold values with an asterisk above are highly uncertain SIPRI estimates.

Italic values are SIPRI estimates.

Notes

SIPRI estimate
The figures for Saudi Arabia include expenditure for public order and safety and might be slightly overestimated.^{[citation needed]}
The figures for France and Poland exclude expenditure for Gendarmerie nationale and Żandarmeria Wojskowa. Inclusive of the Gendarmerie militarised police forces, France's spending is circa $67.17bn and Poland $14.8bn

References

[1]
"Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2022" (PDF). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
[2]
"International Comparisons of Defence Expenditure and Military Personnel". The Military Balance. 124 (1): 542–547. 31 December 2024. doi:10.1080/04597222.2024.2298600. ISSN 0459-7222.
[3]
"Why Russian Military Expenditure Is Much Higher Than Commonly Understood (As Is China's)". War on the Rocks. 16 December 2019. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
[4]
"Russian defense spending is much larger, and more sustainable than it seems". Defensenews. 3 May 2019. Archived from the original on 11 March 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
[5]
"Data for all countries from 1988–2020 in constant (2019) USD (pdf)" (PDF). SIPRI. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
[6]
"SIPRI Military Expenditure Database". Sipri.org. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
[7]
"IISS Military Balance 2021". The Military Balance. 121 (1). International Institute for Strategic Studies: 23–29. January 2021. doi:10.1080/04597222.2021.1868791. S2CID 232050862. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.

External links

SIPRI military expenditure database (sipri.org)

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