Global Rankings: Military Expenditure % (2023)

Rank	Country	Value
1	Ukraine	36.65
2	Lebanon	8.91
3	Algeria	8.17
4	Saudi Arabia	7.09
5	South Sudan	6.26
6	Russian Federation	5.86
7	Armenia	5.45
8	Oman	5.40
9	Israel	5.32
10	Jordan	4.91
11	Kuwait	4.90
12	Azerbaijan	4.60
13	Togo	4.01
14	Burkina Faso	4.01
15	Poland	3.83
16	Mali	3.83
17	Myanmar	3.79
18	Burundi	3.66
19	Morocco	3.64
20	Kyrgyzstan	3.62
21	United States	3.36
22	Greece	3.23
23	Bahrain	3.11
24	Brunei Darussalam	2.97
25	Chad	2.91
26	Colombia	2.87
27	Estonia	2.87
28	Serbia	2.85
29	Korea, Republic of	2.81
30	Pakistan	2.80
31	Namibia	2.74
32	Lithuania	2.72
33	Singapore	2.66
34	Mauritania	2.55
35	Botswana	2.53
36	India	2.44
37	Finland	2.42
38	Tunisia	2.36
39	Liberia	2.30
40	Ecuador	2.30
41	Central African Republic	2.29
42	Latvia	2.27
43	United Kingdom	2.26
44	Hungary	2.13
45	Guinea	2.13
46	Cambodia	2.09
47	Iraq	2.07
48	Niger	2.07
49	Iran, Islamic Republic of	2.06
50	France	2.06
51	Slovakia	2.02
52	Congo	2.00
53	Uruguay	2.00
54	Uganda	1.98
55	Denmark	1.95
56	Australia	1.92
57	Bulgaria	1.85
58	Cyprus	1.82
59	Belarus	1.80
60	Croatia	1.78
61	Albania	1.74
62	Mozambique	1.73
63	Seychelles	1.71
64	North Macedonia	1.70
65	Georgia	1.68
66	China	1.67
67	Sri Lanka	1.64
68	Montenegro	1.63
69	Chile	1.63
70	Romania	1.61
71	Norway	1.61
72	Italy	1.61
73	Equatorial Guinea	1.59
74	Eswatini	1.57
75	Honduras	1.57
76	Lesotho	1.54
77	Netherlands	1.53
78	Czechia	1.52
79	Germany	1.52
80	Portugal	1.52
81	Spain	1.51
82	Türkiye	1.50
83	Sweden	1.47
84	Senegal	1.47
85	Guinea-Bissau	1.46
86	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	1.39
87	Slovenia	1.34
88	Angola	1.33
89	Fiji	1.32
90	Zambia	1.30
91	Canada	1.29
92	El Salvador	1.28
93	Rwanda	1.27
94	Timor-Leste	1.26
95	Philippines	1.25
96	Jamaica	1.22
97	Tajikistan	1.22
98	New Zealand	1.22
99	Belgium	1.21
100	Japan	1.20
101	Thailand	1.17
102	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	1.16
103	Gabon	1.15
104	Tanzania, United Republic of	1.15
105	Peru	1.12
106	Brazil	1.08
107	Nepal	1.08
108	Bangladesh	1.02
109	Malawi	1.01
110	Cameroon	0.93
111	Malaysia	0.93
112	Paraguay	0.91
113	Kenya	0.91
114	Côte d'Ivoire	0.89
115	Trinidad and Tobago	0.89
116	Egypt	0.87
117	Austria	0.84
118	Belize	0.82
119	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.81
120	Nigeria	0.81
121	Ethiopia	0.79
122	Luxembourg	0.75
123	Dominican Republic	0.74
124	South Africa	0.73
125	Benin	0.71
126	Switzerland	0.70
127	Indonesia	0.68
128	Madagascar	0.66
129	Mexico	0.66
130	Mongolia	0.60
131	Guyana	0.59
132	Gambia	0.58
133	Sierra Leone	0.56
134	Malta	0.56
135	Moldova, Republic of	0.55
136	Nicaragua	0.55
137	Cabo Verde	0.53
138	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	0.50
139	Kazakhstan	0.48
140	Argentina	0.47
141	Guatemala	0.41
142	Ghana	0.39
143	Papua New Guinea	0.31
144	Zimbabwe	0.25
145	Ireland	0.22
146	Mauritius	0.15
147	Haiti	0.05

About This Indicator

Military expenditures data from SIPRI are derived from the NATO definition, which includes all current and capital expenditures on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces; defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects; paramilitary forces, if these are judged to be trained and equipped for military operations; and military space activities. Such expenditures include military and civil personnel, including retirement pensions of military personnel and social services for personnel; operation and maintenance; procurement; military research and development; and military aid (in the military expenditures of the donor country). Excluded are civil defense and current expenditures for previous military activities, such as for veterans' benefits, demobilization, conversion, and destruction of weapons. This definition cannot be applied for all countries, however, since that would require much more detailed information than is available about what is included in military budgets and off-budget military expenditure items. (For example, military budgets might or might not cover civil defense, reserves and auxiliary forces, police and paramilitary forces, dual-purpose forces such as military and civilian police, military grants in kind, pensions for military personnel, and social security contributions paid by one part of government to another.)

Data source: World Bank Development Indicators