World Development Indicators

Military expenditures and arms transfers
Military expenditure				Arm forces personnel				Arms transfers (trend indicator values)
								Exports		Imports
% of GDP		% of central government expenditure		thousands		% of labor force		1990 $ millions		1990 $ millions
2010	2018	2010	2018	2010	2017	2010	2017	2010	2018	2010	2018

Afghanistan	1.9	1.0	9.4	3.7	307	323	3.2	2.4	..	..	377	240
Albania	1.6	1.2	5.3	4.1	15	9	1.2	0.7	0	..	15	1
Algeria	3.5	5.3	9.4	13.8	317	317	2.9	2.6	..	0	834	1,318
American Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Andorra	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Angola	4.2	1.8	10.6	9.4	117	117	1.2	1.0	..	..	20	75
Antigua and Barbuda	..	..	..	..	0	0	..	..	..	..	..	..
Argentina	0.8	0.9	2.4	2.1	104	105	0.6	0.5	1	..	11	42
Armenia	4.3	4.8	16.3	20.9	56	49	4.0	3.6	..	..	52	18
Aruba	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Australia	1.9	1.9	5.0	5.1	57	58	0.5	0.4	115	38	1,511	1,572
Austria	0.8	0.7	1.6	1.5	26	21	0.6	0.5	48	5	7	7
Azerbaijan	2.8	3.8	8.7	11.0	82	82	1.8	1.6	..	..	155	330
Bahamas, The	..	..	..	..	1	1	0.4	0.5	..	..	1	12
Bahrain	3.3	3.6	11.5	10.9	19	19	2.7	2.2	..	..	103	48
Bangladesh	1.3	1.4	11.2	10.2	221	221	0.4	0.3	..	..	36	100
Barbados	..	..	..	..	1	1	0.4	0.6	..	..	10	..
Belarus	1.3	1.3	30.3	31.9	183	155	3.6	3.1	159	56	75	142
Belgium	1.1	0.9	2.0	1.8	36	32	0.7	0.6	9	16	32	1
Belize	1.1	1.3	3.8	3.9	1	2	0.8	1.2	..	..	..	..
Benin	1.0	0.9	4.9	3.7	7	12	0.2	0.3	..	..	0	..
Bermuda	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Bhutan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Bolivia	1.7	1.5	5.3	3.9	83	71	1.8	1.4	..	..	1	1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.3	1.1	2.6	2.7	11	11	0.7	0.8	14	..	..	..
Botswana	2.7	2.8	6.2	8.6	11	9	1.3	0.9	..	..	10	4
Brazil	1.5	1.5	4.0	3.9	713	730	0.7	0.7	143	111	319	304
Brunei Darussalam	2.9	2.4	7.9	7.8	9	8	4.8	3.8	24	12	33	..
Bulgaria	1.8	1.7	5.1	4.8	65	31	1.9	0.9	4	7	8	..
Burkina Faso	1.4	2.1	5.7	8.0	11	11	0.2	0.2	..	..	0	18
Burundi	2.5	1.9	6.7	8.4	51	31	1.4	0.7	..	..	2	2
Cambodia	1.5	2.2	7.1	9.2	191	191	2.3	2.1	..	..	34	..
Cameroon	1.5	1.3	8.5	6.0	23	24	0.3	0.2	..	..	10	2
Canada	1.2	1.3	2.8	3.1	66	72	0.3	0.4	244	84	228	215
Cabo Verde	0.5	0.6	1.3	1.8	1	1	0.5	0.4	..	..	2	..
Cayman Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Central African Republic	2.6	1.4	14.0	8.4	3	8	0.2	0.4	..	..	7	1
Chad	5.8	2.1	23.7	14.6	35	35	0.8	0.6	..	..	38	2
Channel Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chile	2.2	1.9	9.6	7.4	104	122	1.3	1.3	100	0	475	70
China	1.9	1.9	7.6	5.5	2,945	2,695	0.4	0.3	1,478	1,040	1,034	1,566
Hong Kong SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Macao SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Colombia	3.6	3.2	12.4	11.6	442	481	1.9	1.8	0	10	255	16
Comoros	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
Congo, Dem. Rep.	0.9	0.7	5.4	5.5	159	134	0.7	0.5	..	..	151	43
Congo, Rep.	1.8	2.5	7.2	10.4	12	12	0.7	0.6	..	..	27	..
Costa Rica	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	10	10	0.5	0.4	0	..	1	..
Cote d'Ivoire	1.6	1.4	7.8	6.0	19	27	0.3	0.3	..	1	..	9
Croatia	1.7	1.5	3.6	3.1	22	18	1.1	1.0	..	3	10	2
Cuba	3.3	2.9	..	..	76	76	1.5	1.5	..	..	..	..
Curacao	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cyprus	1.9	1.6	4.4	4.3	13	16	2.2	2.6	..	..	44	30
Czech Republic	1.2	1.1	2.8	2.8	29	23	0.5	0.4	4	64	13	2
Denmark	1.4	1.2	2.5	2.3	19	15	0.6	0.5	8	27	17	50
Djibouti	3.7	..	9.1	..	13	13	3.7	3.1	..	..	6	18
Dominica	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Dominican Republic	0.7	0.7	4.2	4.1	40	71	1.0	1.5	..	4	51	0
Ecuador	3.0	2.4	8.7	6.4	59	41	0.9	0.5	..	2	90	5
Egypt, Arab Rep.	2.0	1.2	6.2	4.1	836	836	3.0	2.7	..	..	686	1,484
El Salvador	1.1	1.0	4.4	4.2	33	42	1.3	1.5	..	..	2	1
Equatorial Guinea	2.5	0.2	6.2	0.6	1	1	0.4	0.2	..	..	3	7
Eritrea	..	..	..	..	202	202	13.1	12.7	..	..	..	..
Estonia	1.7	2.1	4.2	5.1	6	6	0.8	0.9	..	..	13	32
Ethiopia	1.1	0.6	6.1	3.9	138	138	0.4	0.3	..	..	54	10
Faroe Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fiji	1.6	0.9	5.8	2.7	4	4	0.9	1.1	..	..	..	1
Finland	1.5	1.4	2.7	2.6	25	25	0.9	0.9	60	68	52	130
France	2.3	2.3	4.1	4.1	342	307	1.1	1.0	865	1,768	103	196
French Polynesia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gabon	1.9	1.5	8.1	9.2	7	7	1.3	1.0	..	..	22	3
Gambia, The	0.8	1.1	3.4	3.3	1	1	0.1	0.1	..	..	16	..
Georgia	3.9	1.9	11.8	6.6	32	26	1.6	1.3	..	7	2	38
Germany	1.4	1.2	2.9	2.8	251	180	0.6	0.4	2,725	1,277	282	14
Ghana	0.4	0.4	1.4	1.6	16	16	0.1	0.1	..	..	2	22
Greece	2.7	2.4	5.2	4.9	150	146	2.9	3.0	..	30	641	65
Greenland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Grenada	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guam	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	0.4	0.4	2.8	2.9	34	43	0.6	0.6	..	..	2	3
Guinea	3.0	2.5	11.4	9.9	19	13	0.5	0.3	..	..	4	2
Guinea-Bissau	2.0	..	9.8	..	6	4	1.0	0.5	..	..	..	..
Guyana	1.4	1.7	4.4	4.4	3	3	0.9	0.9	..	..	0	2
Haiti	..	0.0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	..	..	..	..
Honduras	1.1	1.7	4.1	6.5	20	23	0.6	0.6	..	..	0	1
Hungary	1.0	1.1	2.1	2.2	35	40	0.8	0.8	..	..	18	36
Iceland	..	..	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.1	0.0	..	..	50	..
India	2.7	2.4	9.9	8.7	2,626	3,031	0.6	0.6	5	46	2,909	1,539
Indonesia	0.6	0.7	3.7	4.3	582	676	0.5	0.5	8	15	225	354
Iran, Islamic Rep.	2.9	2.7	15.2	15.8	563	563	2.3	2.1	45	20	103	4
Iraq	2.7	2.7	5.5	8.4	802	209	11.0	2.1	..	..	434	596
Ireland	0.6	0.3	0.9	1.3	10	9	0.5	0.4	25	..	5	40
Isle of Man	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Israel	6.2	4.3	15.5	11.1	185	178	5.3	4.4	654	707	67	498
Italy	1.5	1.3	3.0	2.8	359	347	1.5	1.3	539	611	115	311
Jamaica	0.9	1.4	2.6	4.4	3	4	0.2	0.3	..	..	1	13
Japan	1.0	0.9	2.5	2.5	260	261	0.4	0.4	..	3	402	696
Jordan	5.9	4.7	17.9	15.0	111	116	5.8	4.6	117	80	89	215
Kazakhstan	1.0	1.0	4.5	4.8	81	71	0.9	0.8	..	..	58	309
Kenya	1.6	1.2	6.4	4.8	29	29	0.2	0.1	..	..	116	5
Kiribati	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Korea, Dem. People’s Rep.	..	..	..	..	1,379	1,469	9.0	9.0	5	..	1	..
Korea, Rep.	2.6	2.6	13.2	12.4	660	634	2.6	2.3	197	1,083	1,282	1,317
Kosovo	0.7	0.8	2.3	2.7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Kuwait	3.8	5.1	8.4	11.0	23	25	1.4	1.1	..	..	85	88
Kyrgyz Republic	1.6	1.6	4.3	4.4	20	21	0.8	0.8	14	5	..	13
Lao PDR	0.2	..	0.9	..	129	129	4.2	3.5	..	..	14	111
Latvia	1.1	2.0	2.5	5.2	5	6	0.4	0.6	..	..	15	20
Lebanon	4.1	5.0	14.1	15.6	79	80	4.7	3.4	..	..	64	112
Lesotho	2.7	1.8	5.6	3.8	2	2	0.2	0.2	..	..	..	1
Liberia	0.7	0.8	1.7	1.5	2	2	0.2	0.1	..	..	..	..
Libya	3.7	..	8.2	..	76	..	3.5	..	28	..	37	..
Liechtenstein	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Lithuania	0.9	2.0	2.1	5.8	25	34	1.7	2.3	..	..	8	23
Luxembourg	0.5	0.6	1.2	1.4	2	2	0.6	0.7	..	..	7	0
North Macedonia	1.4	1.0	4.3	3.1	8	16	0.8	1.7	..	..	..	0
Madagascar	0.7	0.6	4.6	3.5	22	22	0.2	0.2	..	..	0	..
Malawi	0.7	0.8	2.6	3.1	5	15	0.1	0.2	..	..	1	1
Malaysia	1.5	1.0	5.6	4.3	134	136	1.1	0.9	0	..	423	95
Maldives	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	..
Mali	1.4	2.9	6.8	14.3	12	18	0.2	0.3	..	..	0	23
Malta	0.7	0.5	1.6	1.3	2	2	1.2	0.9	..	..	8	8
Marshall Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mauritania	3.1	3.0	13.2	11.2	21	21	2.2	1.8	..	..	9	35
Mauritius	0.2	0.2	0.6	0.6	2	3	0.4	0.5	..	..	..	19
Mexico	0.6	0.5	2.0	2.1	332	336	0.7	0.6	..	..	112	26
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Moldova	0.3	0.3	0.8	1.0	8	7	0.6	0.6	11	..	..	..
Monaco	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mongolia	0.8	0.8	2.4	2.5	17	18	1.5	1.4	..	..	27	..
Montenegro	1.8	1.5	3.9	3.2	13	12	5.3	4.6	18	0	..	15
Morocco	3.4	3.1	10.9	10.5	246	246	2.1	2.1	..	..	306	387
Mozambique	1.0	1.0	3.3	3.2	11	11	0.1	0.1	..	..	0	2
Myanmar	3.7	2.9	19.6	15.2	513	513	2.2	2.1	..	..	73	192
Namibia	3.5	3.3	10.5	8.8	15	16	2.0	1.7	..	..	3	35
Nepal	1.6	1.4	8.3	4.5	158	112	1.1	0.7	..	..	3	7
Netherlands	1.3	1.2	2.8	2.9	43	41	0.5	0.4	371	369	190	105
New Caledonia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
New Zealand	1.4	1.2	3.1	3.0	10	9	0.4	0.3	75	6	58	6
Nicaragua	0.5	0.6	2.3	2.2	12	12	0.5	0.4	..	..	14	7
Niger	1.2	2.5	5.7	9.5	11	10	0.2	0.1	..	..	0	4
Nigeria	0.5	0.5	3.2	4.0	162	215	0.3	0.4	..	..	188	49
Northern Mariana Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Norway	1.5	1.6	3.4	3.4	24	23	0.9	0.8	159	64	159	537
Oman	6.3	8.2	18.5	19.0	47	47	3.4	1.8	..	7	30	316
Pakistan	3.4	4.0	16.8	18.5	946	936	1.6	1.3	1	2	2,199	777
Palau	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Panama	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	12	26	0.7	1.3	..	..	7	11
Papua New Guinea	0.3	0.3	1.8	1.4	3	4	0.1	0.2	..	..	..	7
Paraguay	0.8	0.9	5.1	4.8	25	27	0.9	0.8	..	..	3	..
Peru	1.5	1.2	7.0	5.6	192	158	1.2	0.9	..	..	46	92
Philippines	1.2	1.1	6.4	5.4	166	153	0.4	0.4	..	..	3	25
Poland	1.8	2.0	4.0	4.8	121	191	0.7	1.0	28	21	158	171
Portugal	2.0	1.8	3.8	4.1	90	52	1.6	1.0	0	3	892	24
Puerto Rico	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Qatar	1.5	..	4.9	..	12	22	0.8	1.1	0	3	30	816
Romania	1.3	1.9	3.3	6.0	154	126	1.6	1.4	1	..	107	30
Russian Federation	3.6	3.9	10.1	11.4	1,430	1,454	1.9	2.0	6,208	6,409	25	26
Rwanda	1.3	1.2	5.1	4.7	35	35	0.7	0.6	..	..	11	3
Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
San Marino	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sao Tome and Principe	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Saudi Arabia	8.6	8.8	25.9	24.6	249	252	2.5	1.8	1	..	1,083	3,810
Senegal	1.5	1.9	11.4	8.8	19	19	0.5	0.5	..	..	4	6
Serbia	2.2	1.9	4.9	4.4	29	32	0.9	1.0	31	2	16	49
Seychelles	0.7	1.4	2.1	3.9	1	0	..	..	..	..	7	6
Sierra Leone	1.0	0.8	4.8	3.1	11	9	0.5	0.4	..	..	2	1
Singapore	3.4	3.1	22.2	17.1	148	81	5.1	2.4	24	47	988	510
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Slovak Republic	1.3	1.2	3.0	3.0	16	16	0.6	0.6	4	12	9	34
Slovenia	1.6	1.0	3.5	2.5	12	7	1.2	0.7	..	0	39	..
Solomon Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Somalia	..	..	..	..	2	20	0.1	0.6	..	..	..	2
South Africa	1.1	1.0	3.5	2.9	77	80	0.4	0.4	235	149	180	..
South Sudan	4.1	1.3	29.0	3.4	140	185	3.6	4.0	..	..	2	8
Spain	1.4	1.3	3.0	3.1	223	196	0.9	0.9	263	1,188	288	156
Sri Lanka	2.7	1.9	13.5	10.1	223	317	2.7	3.7	..	..	4	99
St. Kitts and Nevis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Lucia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Martin (French part)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sudan	6.0	2.3	29.1	11.5	127	124	1.4	1.1	..	..	182	32
Suriname	..	..	..	..	2	2	0.9	0.9	..	..	0	..
Eswatini	2.3	1.5	7.5	5.2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sweden	1.2	1.0	2.4	2.1	21	30	0.4	0.6	657	134	51	45
Switzerland	0.7	0.7	2.2	2.1	25	21	0.6	0.4	250	243	48	10
Syrian Arab Republic	4.1	..	13.6	..	403	239	7.0	4.9	20	..	408	181
Tajikistan	1.0	..	3.6	..	16	17	0.8	0.7	..	..	34	3
Tanzania	0.9	1.2	4.5	6.9	28	28	0.1	0.1	..	..	78	30
Thailand	1.6	1.3	6.7	6.3	420	455	1.1	1.2	..	2	46	578
Timor-Leste	0.6	0.6	2.5	1.4	1	2	0.5	0.7	..	..	18	..
Togo	1.8	2.0	7.9	7.1	9	10	0.3	0.3	..	..	1	..
Tonga	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Trinidad and Tobago	0.6	0.8	1.9	2.4	4	4	0.6	0.6	..	..	24	30
Tunisia	1.3	2.1	5.2	6.9	48	48	1.3	1.2	..	..	7	180
Turkey	2.3	2.5	6.4	7.1	613	512	2.4	1.6	72	364	484	685
Turkmenistan	..	..	..	..	22	42	1.0	1.6	..	..	27	92
Turks and Caicos Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Tuvalu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Uganda	3.0	1.4	16.0	7.1	47	46	0.4	0.3	..	4	37	1
Ukraine	2.7	3.8	5.6	8.7	215	297	1.0	1.4	485	224	..	50
United Arab Emirates	6.0	..	18.7	..	51	63	0.8	0.9	39	113	607	1,101
United Kingdom	2.4	1.8	5.3	4.6	174	148	0.5	0.4	1,157	741	491	533
United States	4.7	3.2	11.7	9.0	1,569	1,359	1.0	0.8	8,074	10,508	1,077	613
Uruguay	1.9	2.0	6.2	5.8	25	22	1.5	1.3	..	..	20	14
Uzbekistan	..	3.6	..	..	87	68	0.7	0.4	209	68	..	6
Vanuatu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Venezuela, RB	1.0	0.5	..	..	115	343	0.9	2.6	40	..	208	137
Vietnam	2.3	2.3	7.7	8.1	522	522	1.0	0.9	..	..	152	546
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	..	..	..	..	56	..	6.3	..	..	..	6	..
Yemen, Rep.	4.7	..	15.5	..	138	40	2.6	0.6	..	..	258	9
Zambia	1.4	1.4	7.7	5.7	17	16	0.3	0.2	..	..	1	44
Zimbabwe	1.0	2.2	4.5	5.6	51	51	0.8	0.7	..	..	..	..
World	2.5	2.1	6.6	6.3	28,134	27,414	0.9	0.8	..	..	25,779	27,522
East Asia & Pacific	1.6	1.7	5.5	5.5	8,455	8,192	0.7	0.7	..	2,180	6,407	7,704
Europe & Central Asia	1.8	1.7	4.0	4.0	5,243	4,990	1.2	1.1	14,355	13,671	4,639	4,183
Latin America & Caribbean	1.4	1.3	4.2	4.1	2,445	2,756	0.9	0.9	..	..	1,616	600
Middle East & North Africa	4.7	5.5	15.6	18.6	4,199	3,315	3.3	2.3	..	..	5,237	11,163
North America	4.3	3.0	10.7	8.3	1,635	1,431	0.9	0.8	8,318	10,592	1,305	828
South Asia	2.7	2.5	10.6	9.8	4,480	4,940	0.7	0.7	5	48	5,530	2,762
Sub-Saharan Africa	1.3	1.1	5.0	5.8	1,677	1,790	0.5	0.4	..	..	1,045	..
Low income	2.1	1.2	7.2	5.9	3,369	3,200	1.4	1.1	..	..	1,898	320
Lower middle income	2.0	1.9	7.8	8.1	8,189	8,754	0.8	0.7	..	..	7,220	5,939
Upper middle income	1.9	1.9	6.8	6.3	10,653	10,068	0.8	0.7	8,539	8,138	5,319	6,722
High income	2.7	2.3	6.5	6.1	5,924	5,392	1.0	0.9	16,516	19,156	11,907	14,335

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