Military Expenditure GDP by Country

% GDPThe World Bank — World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)

As of 2025-12-31, Ukraine has the highest Military Expenditure GDP at 39.56%, while Panama has the lowest at 0%. Median across 167 economies is 1.85%. Source: The World Bank — World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0).

Last updated 2025-12-31

Countries

167

Highest

Ukraine39.56%

Lowest

Panama0%

Median

1.85%

Average

2.45%

Ranked by latest value

highest to lowest · 167 countries

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#	Country	Last	Change	Date
1	Ukraine	39.56%	5.6%	2025-12-31
2	Eritrea	20.87%	0.1939%	2003-12-31
3	Algeria	8.83%	0.8592%	2025-12-31
4	Israel	7.81%	0.6591%	2025-12-31
5	Russian Federation	7.5%	0.6273%	2025-12-31
6	Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) situations	6.77%	1.36%	2025-12-31
7	Myanmar	6.6%	2.87%	2024-12-31
8	Qatar	6.5%	0.0479%	2022-12-31
9	Saudi Arabia	6.48%	0.0771%	2025-12-31
10	Azerbaijan	6.47%	1.38%	2025-12-31
11	Armenia	6.09%	0.6293%	2025-12-31
12	Oman	5.68%	0.093%	2025-12-31
13	United Arab Emirates	5.64%	0.391%	2014-12-31
14	Kuwait	4.69%	0.2477%	2025-12-31
15	Jordan	4.56%	0.1913%	2025-12-31
16	Poland	4.5%	0.7422%	2025-12-31
17	Syrian Arab Republic	4.06%	0.0284%	2010-12-31
18	Yemen, Rep.	3.97%	0.1126%	2014-12-31
19	Mali	3.87%	0.3745%	2025-12-31
20	Brunei Darussalam	3.65%	0.6761%	2024-12-31
21	Latvia	3.61%	0.3099%	2025-12-31
22	Libya	3.57%	0.7687%	2023-12-31
23	Morocco	3.54%	0.108%	2025-12-31
24	South Sudan	3.42%	3.12%	2025-12-31
25	Estonia	3.37%	0.0718%	2025-12-31
26	Burkina Faso	3.3%	1.09%	2025-12-31
27	Norway	3.28%	1.05%	2025-12-31
28	Denmark	3.25%	0.9842%	2025-12-31
29	Burundi	3.24%	0.3187%	2025-12-31
30	Colombia	3.2%	0.111%	2025-12-31
31	Chad	3.19%	0.2077%	2025-12-31
32	United States	3.12%	0.3126%	2025-12-31
33	Turkmenistan	3.11%	0.2281%	1999-12-31
34	Botswana	3.11%	0.4309%	2025-12-31
35	Bahrain	3.11%	0.1605%	2025-12-31
36	Lithuania	3.08%	0.0647%	2025-12-31
37	Singapore	3.05%	0.2464%	2025-12-31
38	Greece	2.99%	0.1042%	2025-12-31
39	Kyrgyz Republic	2.92%	0.008%	2025-12-31
40	Pakistan	2.91%	0.1837%	2025-12-31
41	Cuba	2.88%	0.0038%	2018-12-31
42	Namibia	2.77%	0.0145%	2025-12-31
43	Serbia	2.76%	0.0874%	2025-12-31
44	Mauritania	2.75%	0.2017%	2025-12-31
45	Djibouti	2.63%	0.2735%	2008-12-31
46	Korea, Rep.	2.6%	0.0631%	2025-12-31
47	Finland	2.57%	0.3941%	2025-12-31
48	Lebanon	2.51%	0.2588%	2025-12-31
49	Tunisia	2.49%	0.004%	2025-12-31
50	Uzbekistan	2.49%	2.06%	2018-12-31
51	Sweden	2.47%	0.478%	2025-12-31
52	Iraq	2.45%	0.1746%	2025-12-31
53	Belarus	2.4%	0.4178%	2025-12-31
54	United Kingdom	2.35%	0.0835%	2025-12-31
55	Central African Republic	2.33%	0.2693%	2025-12-31
56	India	2.3%	0.0718%	2025-12-31
57	Uruguay	2.28%	0.3291%	2025-12-31
58	Romania	2.28%	0.1076%	2025-12-31
59	Germany	2.27%	0.4299%	2025-12-31
60	Timor-Leste	2.25%	0.0999%	2025-12-31
61	Venezuela, RB	2.23%	1.78%	2017-12-31
62	Netherlands	2.19%	0.2539%	2025-12-31
63	Viet Nam	2.15%	0.3506%	2025-12-31
64	Niger	2.14%	0.0604%	2025-12-31
65	Spain	2.13%	0.6686%	2025-12-31
66	Ecuador	2.1%	0.216%	2025-12-31
67	Iran, Islamic Rep.	2.09%	0.1272%	2025-12-31
68	Hungary	2.04%	0.0881%	2025-12-31
69	Albania	2.03%	0.0529%	2025-12-31
70	Slovak Republic	2.03%	0.0548%	2025-12-31
71	Guinea	2.03%	0.1435%	2025-12-31
72	France	2.03%	0.0151%	2025-12-31
73	Croatia	2.02%	0.156%	2025-12-31
74	Belgium	2.01%	0.7329%	2025-12-31
75	Bulgaria	2.01%	0.0718%	2025-12-31
76	North Macedonia	1.97%	0.1995%	2025-12-31
77	Uganda	1.96%	0.016%	2025-12-31
78	Australia	1.92%	0.0157%	2025-12-31
79	Turkiye	1.91%	0.0679%	2025-12-31
80	Montenegro	1.89%	0.0756%	2025-12-31
81	Italy	1.89%	0.299%	2025-12-31
82	Togo	1.87%	0.3045%	2025-12-31
83	Mozambique	1.87%	0.2585%	2025-12-31
84	Kosovo	1.85%	0.3741%	2025-12-31
85	Czechia	1.84%	0.0407%	2025-12-31
86	Afghanistan	1.83%	0.4691%	2021-12-31
87	Georgia	1.75%	0.1527%	2025-12-31
88	China	1.72%	0.0607%	2025-12-31
89	Portugal	1.71%	0.267%	2025-12-31
90	Gabon	1.66%	0.1347%	2025-12-31
91	Lesotho	1.63%	0.0145%	2025-12-31
92	Canada	1.63%	0.2787%	2025-12-31
93	Cyprus	1.61%	0.0206%	2025-12-31
94	Eswatini	1.6%	0.0583%	2025-12-31
95	Senegal	1.56%	0.41%	2025-12-31
96	Slovenia	1.54%	0.2003%	2025-12-31
97	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	1.54%	0.1188%	2025-12-31
98	Chile	1.52%	0.1471%	2025-12-31
99	Tajikistan	1.47%	0.1395%	2025-12-31
100	Honduras	1.46%	0.0121%	2025-12-31
101	Cambodia	1.45%	0.0722%	2025-12-31
102	Japan	1.41%	0.117%	2025-12-31
103	Angola	1.4%	0.3629%	2025-12-31
104	Congo, Dem. Rep.	1.38%	0.1594%	2025-12-31
105	Jamaica	1.37%	0.0174%	2025-12-31
106	El Salvador	1.34%	0.048%	2025-12-31
107	Fiji	1.33%	0.024%	2025-12-31
108	Sri Lanka	1.31%	0.0351%	2025-12-31
109	Congo, Rep.	1.31%	0.0767%	2025-12-31
110	Philippines	1.3%	0.1053%	2025-12-31
111	Rwanda	1.29%	0.056%	2025-12-31
112	Zambia	1.26%	0.0655%	2025-12-31
113	Seychelles	1.24%	0.0305%	2025-12-31
114	Bolivia	1.21%	0.0099%	2025-12-31
115	Tanzania	1.16%	0.0164%	2025-12-31
116	Malawi	1.15%	0.0882%	2025-12-31
117	New Zealand	1.1%	0.0595%	2025-12-31
118	Austria	1.1%	0.1101%	2025-12-31
119	Kenya	1.07%	0.0289%	2025-12-31
120	Cameroon	1.06%	0.0546%	2025-12-31
121	Brazil	1.05%	0.0954%	2025-12-31
122	Indonesia	1.04%	0.1844%	2025-12-31
123	Thailand	1.04%	0.0124%	2025-12-31
124	Malaysia	1.04%	0.0011%	2025-12-31
125	Belize	0.9957%	0.0865%	2025-12-31
126	Guyana	0.9914%	0.1536%	2025-12-31
127	Nepal	0.9657%	0.0591%	2025-12-31
128	Trinidad and Tobago	0.9393%	0.0422%	2025-12-31
129	Sudan	0.9254%	0.0505%	2021-12-31
130	Nigeria	0.9094%	0.354%	2025-12-31
131	Equatorial Guinea	0.8976%	0.0004%	2025-12-31
132	Benin	0.8901%	0.1112%	2025-12-31
133	Guinea-Bissau	0.887%	0.1528%	2025-12-31
134	Mongolia	0.8827%	0.1242%	2025-12-31
135	Paraguay	0.8756%	0.0552%	2025-12-31
136	Liberia	0.8531%	0.1452%	2025-12-31
137	Luxembourg	0.8511%	0.1877%	2025-12-31
138	Peru	0.8124%	0.0666%	2025-12-31
139	Bangladesh	0.8106%	0.0509%	2025-12-31
140	Dominican Republic	0.8023%	0.012%	2025-12-31
141	Cote d'Ivoire	0.7749%	0.0116%	2025-12-31
142	Switzerland	0.7569%	0.059%	2025-12-31
143	South Africa	0.7374%	0.0188%	2025-12-31
144	Mexico	0.7368%	0.3883%	2025-12-31
145	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.7283%	0.0339%	2025-12-31
146	Cabo Verde	0.6575%	0.04%	2025-12-31
147	Madagascar	0.6189%	0.0898%	2025-12-31
148	Egypt, Arab Rep.	0.6056%	0.0612%	2025-12-31
149	Gambia, The	0.5698%	0.0257%	2025-12-31
150	Nicaragua	0.5648%	0.0132%	2025-12-31
151	Zimbabwe	0.5646%	0.2134%	2025-12-31
152	Argentina	0.5632%	0.0916%	2025-12-31
153	Moldova	0.5603%	0.0397%	2025-12-31
154	Guatemala	0.5231%	0.1226%	2025-12-31
155	Ethiopia	0.4937%	0.0014%	2025-12-31
156	Ghana	0.4768%	0.1279%	2025-12-31
157	Malta	0.4488%	0.0748%	2025-12-31
158	Kazakhstan	0.4303%	0.0297%	2025-12-31
159	Sierra Leone	0.3703%	0.2903%	2025-12-31
160	Papua New Guinea	0.3503%	0.0401%	2025-12-31
161	Ireland	0.2191%	0.0003%	2025-12-31
162	Lao PDR	0.1899%	0.0096%	2013-12-31
163	Mauritius	0.1455%	0.0193%	2025-12-31
164	Haiti	0.1212%	0.043%	2025-12-31
165	Costa Rica	0%	0%	2025-12-31
166	Iceland	0%	0%	2025-12-31
167	Panama	0%	0%	2025-12-31