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Military spending

Military expenditure as a share of GDP.

Military expenditure covers spending on the armed forces, including peacekeeping, defence ministries, paramilitary forces and military space activities, shown as a share of GDP. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) compiles it from official sources, and the World Bank republishes it.

World map · Military spending, % of GDP

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

Over time · Military spending, % of GDP

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

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Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.

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