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The following is a list of countries with the highest military expenditures.

Highest military expenditure

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The first list is based on theStockholm 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 ofThe Military Balance, published by theInternational Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) using average market exchange rates.^[2]

40 countries with the highest military spending worldwide in 2024^[1]
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database

List by theInternational 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)	% ofGDP	% of global spending
1	United States	997.0	3.4	35.5
2	China^[a]	314.0	1.7	11.2
3	Russia^[a]	149.0	7.1	9.3
4	Germany	88.5	1.9	3.2
5	India	86.1	2.3	3.1
6	United Kingdom	81.8	2.3	3.0
7	Saudi Arabia^[a]	80.3	7.4	3.0
8	Ukraine	64.7	34.0	2.4
9	France^[b]	64.7	2.1	2.4
10	Japan	55.3	1.4	2.0
11	South Korea	47.6	2.6	1.8
12	Israel	46.5	8.8	1.7
13	Poland^[b]	38.0	4.2	1.4
14	Italy	38.0	1.6	1.4
15	Australia	33.8	1.9	1.2
16	Canada	29.3	1.3	1.1
17	Turkey	25.0	1.9	1.0
18	Spain	24.6	1.4	0.9
19	Netherlands	23.2	1.9	0.7
20	Algeria	21.8	8.0	0.7
21	Brazil	20.9	1.0	0.7
22	Mexico	16.7	0.9	0.6
23	Taiwan	16.5	2.1	0.5
24	Colombia	15.1	3.4	0.5
25	Singapore	15.1	2.8	0.4
26	Sweden	12.0	2.0	0.4
27	Indonesia	11.0	0.8	0.4
28	Norway	10.4	2.1	0.4
29	Pakistan	10.2	2.7	0.4
30	Denmark	10.0	2.4	0.3
31	Romania	8.7	2.3	0.3
32	Belgium	8.6	1.3	0.3
33	Greece	8.0	3.1	0.3
34	Iran	7.9	2.0	0.3
35	Kuwait	7.8	4.8	0.3
36	Finland	7.0	2.3	0.3
37	Switzerland	6.7	0.7	0.2
38	Czech Republic	6.5	1.9	0.2
39	Iraq	6.2	2.4	0.2
40	Philippines	6.1	1.3	0.2

Rank	Country	Spending (US$ bn)
1	United States	968.0
2	China	235.0
3	Russia	145.9
4	Germany	86.0
5	United Kingdom	81.1
6	India	74.4
7	Saudi Arabia	71.7
8	France	64.0
9	Japan	53.0
10	South Korea	43.9
11	Australia	36.4
12	Italy	35.2
13	Israel	33.7
14	Ukraine	28.4
15	Poland	28.4
16	Canada	27.0
17	Brazil	24.4
18	Netherlands	23.6
19	United Arab Emirates	22.3
20	Algeria	21.4
21	Spain	19.4
22	Taiwan	18.9
23	Singapore	15.2
24	Turkey	14.3
25	Iraq	12.7
26	Sweden	12.3
27	Indonesia	10.9
28	Mexico	10.2
29	Norway	9.8
30	Qatar	9.7

Highest military expenditure, share of GDP

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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 theStockholm International Peace Research Institute as a source, while the second list gets its data from theInternational Institute for Strategic Studies.

As a share of GDP

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List by theStockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database (2024)^[5]

List by theInternational Institute for Strategic Studies
Top 15 Defence Budgets 2020^[6]

Rank	Country	% of GDP
1	Ukraine	34.48%
2	Israel	8.78%
3	Algeria	7.97%
4	Saudi Arabia	7.30%
5	Russia	7.05%
6	Myanmar	6.79%
7	Oman	5.59%
8	Armenia	5.48%
9	Azerbaijan	4.99%
10	Kuwait	4.84%
11	Jordan	4.80%
12	Burkina Faso	4.68%
13	Mali	4.20%
14	Poland	4.15%
15	Burundi	3.80%
16	Brunei	3.58%
17	Morocco	3.52%
18	United States	3.42%
19	Estonia	3.37%
20	Colombia	3.36%
21	Latvia	3.26%
22	Greece	3.13%
23	Lithuania	3.12%
24	Chad	2.98%
25	Kyrgyzstan	2.97%


Rank	Country	% of GDP
1	Oman	12.0%
2	Afghanistan	10.6%
3	Lebanon	10.5%
4	Kuwait	7.1%
5	Saudi Arabia	7.1%
6	Algeria	6.7%
7	Iraq	5.8%
8	UAE	5.6%
9	Azerbaijan	5.4%
10	Morocco	5.3%
11	Israel	5.2%
12	Jordan	4.9%
13	Armenia	4.8%
14	Mali	4.5%
15	Qatar	4.4%

* Italic values are SIPRI estimates.

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Notes

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^^a ^b ^cSIPRI estimate
^^a ^bThe figures for France and Poland exclude expenditure forNational Gendarmerie andŻandarmeria Wojskowa.

References

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^^a ^b"Trends in Military Expenditure 2024"(PDF).Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. April 2025. Retrieved28 April 2025.
^^a ^b"The Military Balance 2025: Defence Spending and Procurement Trends".IISS. Retrieved14 February 2025.
^"Interactive: Global defence spending in 2024".IISS. Retrieved19 February 2025.
^"Global defence spending soars to new high".IISS. Retrieved24 April 2025.
^"SIPRI Military Expenditure Database".SIPRI. 28 April 2025. Retrieved28 April 2025.
^"IISS Military Balance 2021".The Military Balance.121 (1). International Institute for Strategic Studies:23–29. January 2021.doi:10.1080/04597222.2021.1868791.S2CID 232050862.Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved25 February 2021.

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