List of countries by military expenditures


This article contains a list of countries by military expenditure in a given year. Military expenditure figures are presented in United States dollars based on either constant or current exchange rates.

Total military spending

; Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 2019 fact sheet
The first list is based on the SIPRI fact sheet which includes a list of the world's top 15 military spenders in 2019, based on current market exchange rates.
The second list is based on the 2020 edition of "The Military Balance" published by the using average market exchange rates.

Spending by 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 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for the year 2017 and from Military Balance 2017 published by International Institute for Strategic Studies for the year 2016. The second list is sourced only from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for the year 2017.
None of the following analyze such potential record-breakers like North Korea, Syria, Yemen, and Libya.

Military expenditure as a share of GDP

Military expenditure as a share of government spending (2018)

Military expenditure as a share of goods exports (2018)

*59.8% including the costs for veterans in 2016