List of countries with highest military expenditures

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Military spending by country.

This is a list of countries with highest military expenditures.

Highest military expenditure

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 2024, based on current market exchange rates.[1]

The second list is based on the 2025 edition of The Military Balance, published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) using average market exchange rates.[2] Template:Sticky header

40 countries with the highest military spending worldwide in 2024[1]
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database 		List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies

2025 edition of "The Military Balance" from the
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)[2][3][4]
for the year 2024

Rank Country Spending
(US$ bn)		 % of GDP % of global
spending
1 Template:Flagicon United States 997.0 3.4 37.0
2 Template:Flagicon China[lower-alpha 1] 314.0 1.7 12.0
3 Template:Flagicon Russia[lower-alpha 1] 149.0 7.1 5.5
4 Template:Flagicon Germany 88.5 1.9 3.3
5 Template:Flagicon India 86.1 2.3 3.2
6 Template:Flagicon United Kingdom 81.8 2.3 3.0
7 Template:Flagicon Saudi Arabia[lower-alpha 1] 80.3 7.3 3.0
8 Template:Flagicon Ukraine 64.7 34.0 2.4
9 Template:Flagicon France[lower-alpha 2] 64.7 2.1 2.4
10 Template:Flagicon Japan 55.3 1.4 2.0
11 Template:Flagicon South Korea 47.6 2.6 1.8
12 Template:Flagicon Israel 46.5 8.8 1.7
13 Template:Flagicon Poland[lower-alpha 2] 38.0 4.2 1.4
14 Template:Flagicon Italy 38.0 1.6 1.4
15 Template:Flagicon Australia 33.8 1.9 1.2
16 Template:Flagicon Canada 29.3 1.3 1.1
17 Template:Flagicon Turkey 25.0 1.9 1.0
18 Template:Flagicon Spain 24.6 1.4 0.9
19 Template:Flagicon Netherlands 23.2 1.9 0.7
20 Template:Flagicon Algeria 21.8 8.0 0.7
21 Template:Flagicon Brazil 20.9 1.0 0.7
22 Template:Flagicon Mexico 16.7 0.9 0.6
23 Template:Flagicon Taiwan 16.5 2.1 0.5
24 Template:Flagicon Colombia 15.1 3.4 0.5
25 Template:Flagicon Singapore 15.1 2.8 0.4
26 Template:Flagicon Sweden 12.0 2.0 0.4
27 Template:Flagicon Indonesia 11.0 0.8 0.4
28 Template:Flagicon Norway 10.4 2.1 0.4
29 Template:Flagicon Pakistan 10.2 2.7 0.4
30 Template:Flagicon Denmark 10.0 2.4 0.3
31 Template:Flagicon Romania 8.7 2.3 0.3
32 Template:Flagicon Belgium 8.6 1.3 0.3
33 Template:Flagicon Greece 8.0 3.1 0.3
34 Template:Flagicon Iran 7.9 2.0 0.3
35 Template:Flagicon Kuwait 7.8 4.8 0.3
36 Template:Flagicon Finland 7.0 2.3 0.3
37 Template:Flagicon Switzerland 6.7 0.7 0.2
38 Template:Flagicon Czechia 6.5 1.9 0.2
39 Template:Flagicon Iraq 6.2 2.4 0.2
40 Template:Flagicon Philippines 6.1 1.3 0.2
Rank Country Spending
(US$ bn)
1 Template:Flagicon United States 968.0
2 Template:Flagicon China 235.0
3 Template:Flagicon Russia 145.9
4 Template:Flagicon Germany 86.0
5 Template:Flagicon United Kingdom 81.1
6 Template:Flagicon India 74.4
7 Template:Flagicon Saudi Arabia 71.7
8 Template:Flagicon France 64.0
9 Template:Flagicon Japan 53.0
10 Template:Flagicon South Korea 43.9
11 Template:Flagicon Australia 36.4
12 Template:Flagicon Italy 35.2
13 Template:Flagicon Israel 33.7
14 Template:Flagicon Ukraine 28.4
15 Template:Flagicon Poland 28.4
16 Template:Flagicon Canada 27.0
17 Template:Flagicon Brazil 24.4
18 Template:Flagicon Netherlands 23.6
19 Template:Flagicon United Arab Emirates 22.3
20 Template:Flagicon Algeria 21.4
21 Template:Flagicon Spain 19.4
22 Template:Flagicon Taiwan 18.9
23 Template:Flagicon Singapore 15.2
24 Template:Flagicon Turkey 14.3
25 Template:Flagicon Iraq 12.7
26 Template:Flagicon Sweden 12.3
27 Template:Flagicon Indonesia 10.9
28 Template:Flagicon Mexico 10.2
29 Template:Flagicon Norway 9.8
30 Template:Flagicon Qatar 9.7

Highest military expenditure, share of GDP

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.

As a share of GDP

List by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database (2024)[5] 		List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Top 15 Defence Budgets 2020[6]
Rank Country % of GDP
1 Template:Country data Ukraine 34.48%
2 Template:Country data Israel 8.78%
3 Template:Country data Algeria 7.97%
4 Template:Country data Saudi Arabia 7.30%
5 Template:Country data Russia 7.05%
6 Template:Country data Myanmar 6.79%
7 Template:Country data Oman 5.59%
8 Template:Country data Armenia 5.48%
9 Template:Country data Azerbaijan 4.99%
10 Template:Country data Kuwait 4.84%
11 Template:Country data Jordan 4.80%
12 Template:Country data Burkina Faso 4.68%
13 Template:Country data Mali 4.20%
14 Template:Country data Poland 4.15%
15 Template:Country data Burundi 3.80%
16 Template:Country data Brunei 3.58%
17 Template:Country data Morocco 3.52%
18 Template:Country data United States of America 3.42%
19 Template:Country data Estonia 3.37%
20 Template:Country data Colombia 3.36%
21 Template:Country data Latvia 3.26%
22 Template:Country data Greece 3.13%
23 Template:Country data Lithuania 3.12%
24 Template:Country data Chad 2.98%
25 Template:Country data Kyrgyz Republic 2.97%
Rank Country % of GDP
1 Template:Country data Oman 12.0%
2 Template:Country data Afghanistan 10.6%
3 Template:Country data Lebanon 10.5%
4 Template:Country data Kuwait 7.1%
5 Template:Country data Saudi Arabia 7.1%
6 Template:Country data Algeria 6.7%
7 Template:Country data Iraq 5.8%
8 Template:Country data UAE 5.6%
9 Template:Country data Azerbaijan 5.4%
10 Template:Country data Morocco 5.3%
11 Template:Country data Israel 5.2%
12 Template:Country data Jordan 4.9%
13 Template:Country data Armenia 4.8%
14 Template:Country data Mali 4.5%
15 Template:Country data Qatar 4.4%
* Italic values are SIPRI estimates.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ a b c SIPRI estimate
  2. ↑ a b The figures for France and Poland exclude expenditure for National Gendarmerie and Żandarmeria Wojskowa.

References

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External links

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