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	2022	2010	2022	2010	2020	2010	2020	2010	2022	2010	2022

Afghanistan	1.9	1.8	9.4	10.5	307	165	4.5	1.8	..	..	365	65
Albania	1.6	1.2	5.3	4.0	15	8	1.2	0.6	1	..	15	1
Algeria	3.5	4.7	9.1	12.7	317	326	2.8	2.7	..	..	831	418
American Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Andorra	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Angola	4.2	1.3	10.6	5.8	117	117	1.2	0.9	..	..	20	46
Antigua and Barbuda	..	..	..	..	0	0	..	..	..	..	..	0
Argentina	0.8	0.7	2.4	1.8	104	103	0.6	0.5	1	..	11	50
Armenia	4.3	4.1	16.3	15.5	56	47	3.7	3.2	..	..	52	29
Aruba	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Australia	1.9	1.9	5.0	5.0	57	60	0.5	0.4	137	19	1,558	815
Austria	0.8	0.8	1.6	1.5	26	23	0.6	0.5	65	3	5	5
Azerbaijan	2.8	3.8	8.7	14.5	82	82	1.9	1.6	..	..	162	20
Bahamas, The	..	..	..	..	1	2	0.4	0.9	..	..	1	..
Bahrain	3.3	3.1	10.1	10.7	19	19	2.8	2.3	..	..	98	261
Bangladesh	1.2	1.1	11.2	8.1	221	227	0.4	0.3	..	..	36	323
Barbados	..	..	..	..	1	1	0.4	0.7	..	..	10	..
Belarus	1.3	1.6	30.3	45.7	183	158	3.6	3.2	161	58	75	208
Belgium	1.1	1.2	2.0	2.2	36	24	0.7	0.5	11	146	35	170
Belize	0.9	0.8	3.8	3.6	1	2	0.8	1.1	..	..	..	1
Benin	0.7	0.6	4.9	3.2	7	12	0.2	0.2	..	..	0	3
Bermuda	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Bhutan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4
Bolivia	2.8	1.0	8.8	2.7	83	71	1.8	1.2	..	..	1	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.3	0.7	2.6	1.8	11	11	0.6	0.8	14	2	..	12
Botswana	2.8	2.4	6.2	8.1	11	9	1.3	0.9	..	..	10	11
Brazil	1.5	1.1	3.7	2.3	713	762	0.7	0.8	146	7	256	469
Brunei Darussalam	2.9	2.6	7.9	9.9	9	8	4.7	3.6	24	..	33	11
Bulgaria	1.6	1.6	4.8	4.2	65	37	1.9	1.2	4	34	8	3
Burkina Faso	1.2	3.0	5.7	9.2	11	11	0.2	0.2	..	..	0	12
Burundi	2.5	2.6	6.7	6.7	51	31	1.3	0.6	..	..	2	..
Cambodia	1.5	2.1	7.1	8.4	191	191	2.3	2.0	..	..	34	32
Cameroon	1.3	0.9	8.5	5.5	23	34	0.3	0.3	..	..	10	2
Canada	1.2	1.2	2.8	2.9	66	72	0.3	0.4	196	179	242	203
Cabo Verde	0.5	0.5	1.3	1.7	1	1	0.6	0.5	..	..	2	..
Cayman Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Central African Republic	2.4	1.7	14.0	9.7	3	10	0.2	0.5	..	..	7	2
Chad	5.8	2.7	23.7	14.6	35	45	0.9	0.8	..	..	42	5
Channel Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chile	2.3	1.5	9.6	5.8	104	114	1.3	1.3	100	8	474	207
China	1.7	1.6	7.0	4.9	2,945	2,535	0.4	0.3	1,501	2,280	939	646
Hong Kong SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Macao SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Colombia	3.6	2.8	12.0	8.3	442	428	2.0	1.7	0	4	259	50
Comoros	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
Congo, Dem. Rep.	0.9	0.6	5.3	3.3	159	134	0.6	0.4	..	..	156	27
Congo, Rep.	1.7	1.9	7.2	8.4	12	12	0.7	0.5	..	..	28	3
Costa Rica	..	..	..	..	10	10	0.5	0.4	3	..	..	..
Cote d'Ivoire	1.1	0.9	7.8	3.9	19	27	0.2	0.2	..	..	..	22
Croatia	1.7	1.8	3.4	4.0	22	20	1.1	1.2	..	4	10	29
Cuba	3.3	..	..	..	76	76	1.5	1.6	..	..	..	..
Curacao	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cyprus	1.9	1.8	4.4	4.7	13	13	2.1	1.8	..	40	44	11
Czechia	1.2	1.4	2.7	3.1	29	27	0.5	0.5	5	163	12	69
Denmark	1.4	1.4	2.5	3.0	19	15	0.6	0.5	8	78	22	210
Djibouti	2.6	..	9.1	..	13	13	6.5	5.5	..	..	6	19
Dominica	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Dominican Republic	0.7	0.7	4.2	3.6	40	71	1.0	1.5	..	0	51	5
Ecuador	3.0	2.2	8.7	5.7	59	42	0.9	0.5	..	..	90	9
Egypt, Arab Rep.	2.0	1.0	6.2	4.6	836	836	2.9	2.8	..	41	689	743
El Salvador	1.1	1.4	4.3	5.0	33	42	1.3	1.6	..	..	2	7
Equatorial Guinea	2.5	1.3	6.2	7.7	1	1	0.3	0.2	..	..	3	0
Eritrea	..	..	..	..	202	202	15.0	13.4	..	..	..	..
Estonia	1.7	2.2	4.2	5.5	6	7	0.8	1.0	..	9	13	18
Ethiopia	1.2	0.9	6.1	6.9	138	138	0.3	0.3	..	..	58	45
Faroe Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fiji	1.6	1.3	6.0	4.4	4	4	0.9	1.1	..	..	..	16
Finland	1.5	1.6	2.8	3.0	25	22	0.9	0.8	66	40	44	30
France	2.0	1.9	3.5	3.3	342	304	1.1	1.0	901	3,123	103	133
French Polynesia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gabon	1.9	1.3	8.1	8.1	7	7	1.3	1.0	..	..	27	16
Gambia, The	0.5	0.7	3.4	3.1	1	4	0.2	0.6	..	..	16	1
Georgia	3.7	1.5	11.8	5.0	32	26	1.6	1.4	..	..	2	2
Germany	1.3	1.4	2.6	2.8	251	183	0.6	0.4	2,357	1,489	306	284
Ghana	0.3	0.3	1.4	1.2	16	16	0.1	0.1	..	..	2	40
Greece	2.8	4.0	5.2	7.6	150	147	3.0	3.2	..	7	630	441
Greenland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Grenada	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guam	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	0.4	0.5	2.8	3.2	34	43	0.6	0.7	..	..	2	10
Guinea	2.2	2.2	11.4	15.8	19	13	0.6	0.3	..	..	5	1
Guinea-Bissau	1.8	1.6	9.8	6.8	6	4	1.1	0.5	..	..	..	..
Guyana	0.9	0.6	4.5	3.0	3	3	0.9	1.0	..	..	0	5
Haiti	..	0.1	..	0.8	0	1	0.0	0.0	..	..	..	..
Honduras	1.1	1.5	4.1	6.1	20	23	0.6	0.6	..	..	0	4
Hungary	1.0	1.8	2.1	3.8	35	46	0.8	1.0	..	2	18	39
Iceland	..	..	..	..	0	0	0.1	0.0	..	..	50	..
India	2.9	2.4	9.9	8.1	2,626	3,068	0.6	0.6	5	7	2,891	2,629
Indonesia	0.6	0.8	3.7	4.4	582	676	0.5	0.5	4	17	224	86
Iran, Islamic Rep.	2.8	2.1	16.0	15.5	563	650	2.2	2.4	52	83	87	21
Iraq	2.7	1.8	5.5	4.7	802	459	10.7	4.5	..	..	480	55
Ireland	0.6	0.2	0.9	1.0	10	9	0.5	0.4	38	46	4	1
Isle of Man	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Israel	5.9	4.5	14.6	12.2	185	178	5.3	4.2	658	1,050	76	849
Italy	1.5	1.7	3.0	3.0	359	338	1.5	1.4	584	1,711	98	237
Jamaica	0.9	1.3	2.6	4.1	3	6	0.2	0.4	..	..	1	10
Japan	0.9	1.1	2.5	2.5	260	261	0.4	0.4	..	13	658	1,571
Jordan	5.7	4.9	17.9	14.5	111	116	6.0	4.0	117	53	90	41
Kazakhstan	1.0	0.5	4.5	2.4	81	71	0.9	0.7	..	..	59	191
Kenya	1.4	1.0	6.4	4.4	29	24	0.2	0.1	..	..	96	1
Kiribati	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	..	..	..	..	1,379	1,469	8.6	8.6	7	13	1	..
Korea, Rep.	2.5	2.8	13.2	9.7	660	569	2.6	2.0	177	220	1,299	423
Kosovo	0.7	1.1	2.4	4.0	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Kuwait	3.8	4.7	8.4	11.2	23	25	1.5	1.0	..	..	87	2,245
Kyrgyz Republic	1.6	3.1	4.3	8.3	20	21	0.8	0.7	14	..	..	14
Lao PDR	0.2	..	0.9	..	129	129	5.3	4.1	..	..	15	3
Latvia	1.1	2.1	2.5	5.2	5	9	0.4	0.9	..	11	16	34
Lebanon	4.1	2.9	14.1	10.7	79	80	4.8	4.3	..	..	64	30
Lesotho	3.2	1.5	5.5	2.8	2	2	0.2	0.2	..	..	..	..
Liberia	0.8	2.5	1.8	3.4	2	2	0.1	0.1	..	..	..	0
Libya	3.7	..	8.2	..	76	0	3.5	0.0	27	..	37	34
Liechtenstein	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Lithuania	0.9	2.4	2.1	6.8	25	37	1.7	2.5	..	25	8	75
Luxembourg	0.4	0.6	1.1	1.4	2	1	0.6	0.3	..	..	8	0
North Macedonia	1.4	1.6	4.3	4.6	8	16	1.0	2.0	..	31	6	1
Madagascar	0.6	0.7	4.6	3.8	22	22	0.2	0.2	..	..	..	1
Malawi	0.7	1.0	2.6	3.5	5	15	0.1	0.2	..	..	1	19
Malaysia	1.5	0.9	5.6	3.6	134	136	1.0	0.8	0	..	212	71
Maldives	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	2
Mali	1.4	3.1	6.8	12.4	12	41	0.2	0.5	..	..	0	62
Malta	0.7	0.4	1.6	1.1	2	2	1.2	0.7	..	..	8	45
Marshall Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mauritania	3.1	2.3	12.4	8.2	21	21	2.5	2.0	..	..	17	2
Mauritius	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.5	2	3	0.3	0.5	..	..	..	4
Mexico	0.4	0.7	1.6	2.4	332	341	0.7	0.6	..	..	109	4
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Moldova	0.3	0.3	0.8	0.9	8	6	0.5	0.4	12	..	..	13
Monaco	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mongolia	0.8	0.5	2.4	1.6	17	18	1.5	1.3	..	..	64	3
Montenegro	1.8	1.6	3.9	3.7	13	12	5.4	4.7	18	4	..	2
Morocco	3.4	3.8	10.9	11.8	246	246	2.2	2.1	..	21	335	509
Mozambique	0.9	1.5	3.3	4.6	11	11	0.1	0.1	..	..	0	5
Myanmar	3.9	4.1	21.5	22.2	513	463	2.2	1.9	..	..	62	229
Namibia	3.5	2.9	10.5	8.0	15	16	2.0	1.6	..	..	3	54
Nepal	1.4	1.1	8.3	4.0	158	112	2.2	1.4	..	..	3	0
Netherlands	1.3	1.4	2.8	3.1	43	41	0.5	0.4	366	324	188	733
New Caledonia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
New Zealand	1.2	1.2	2.8	2.8	10	10	0.4	0.3	75	29	78	171
Nicaragua	0.5	0.5	2.2	1.9	12	12	0.5	0.4	..	..	15	..
Niger	0.9	1.7	6.0	7.3	11	10	0.2	0.1	..	..	1	33
Nigeria	0.5	0.7	3.2	4.5	162	223	0.2	0.2	..	3	223	54
Northern Mariana Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Norway	1.5	1.5	3.4	3.9	24	25	0.9	0.9	62	31	150	700
Oman	5.6	5.0	18.5	17.0	47	47	4.0	2.1	..	..	31	5
Pakistan	3.0	3.2	16.8	15.9	946	943	1.5	1.3	1	1	2,226	1,540
Palau	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Panama	..	..	..	..	12	28	0.7	1.3	..	..	..	..
Papua New Guinea	0.3	0.3	1.8	1.4	3	4	0.1	0.1	..	..	..	9
Paraguay	0.8	0.8	5.1	3.7	25	29	1.0	0.9	..	..	3	5
Peru	1.5	1.2	7.0	4.9	192	158	1.2	0.9	..	..	46	38
Philippines	1.2	1.3	6.4	5.1	166	157	0.4	0.4	..	..	3	280
Poland	1.8	2.2	4.0	5.1	121	189	0.7	1.0	28	707	175	409
Portugal	1.5	1.4	2.9	3.2	90	52	1.6	1.0	0	2	891	67
Puerto Rico	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Qatar	1.5	7.0	4.9	26.9	12	22	1.0	1.1	0	1	30	3,373
Romania	1.2	1.7	3.3	4.7	154	128	1.8	1.5	1	1	107	186
Russian Federation	3.6	4.7	10.1	12.9	1,430	1,454	1.9	2.0	6,218	2,510	25	75
Rwanda	1.2	1.3	5.1	4.5	35	35	1.0	0.7	..	..	11	17
Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
San Marino	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sao Tome and Principe	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Saudi Arabia	8.6	6.4	25.9	22.7	249	282	2.8	1.9	1	3	1,108	3,058
Senegal	1.2	1.5	5.6	5.7	19	19	0.5	0.4	..	..	4	28
Serbia	2.1	2.7	4.9	6.2	29	32	0.9	1.0	31	3	16	164
Seychelles	0.7	1.3	2.1	3.8	1	0	..	..	..	..	8	19
Sierra Leone	1.0	0.7	4.8	2.3	11	9	0.5	0.4	..	..	2	..
Singapore	3.4	2.6	32.2	15.6	148	59	5.0	1.7	27	36	936	499
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Slovak Republic	1.2	1.8	3.0	4.3	16	18	0.6	0.7	5	71	9	3
Slovenia	1.6	1.3	3.2	2.7	12	7	1.2	0.7	..	38	40	26
Solomon Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Somalia	..	..	..	15.8	2	14	0.1	0.5	..	..	..	4
South Africa	1.0	0.8	3.5	2.4	77	89	0.4	0.4	244	68	178	30
South Sudan	4.1	4.2	29.0	5.8	140	53	3.4	1.2	..	..	2	10
Spain	1.4	1.4	3.0	3.0	223	199	0.9	0.9	273	1,018	272	198
Sri Lanka	2.7	1.3	13.5	7.3	223	317	2.7	3.7	..	..	5	3
St. Kitts and Nevis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Lucia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Martin (French part)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sudan	5.5	0.9	29.1	9.5	127	144	1.3	1.3	..	..	184	3
Suriname	..	..	..	..	2	2	0.9	0.8	..	..	0	12
Eswatini	2.4	1.6	7.5	5.4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
Sweden	1.2	1.3	2.4	2.8	21	15	0.4	0.3	619	83	185	318
Switzerland	0.7	0.7	2.2	2.2	25	20	0.6	0.4	278	176	42	15
Syrian Arab Republic	4.1	..	13.6	..	403	269	6.6	5.2	30	..	420	7
Tajikistan	1.0	2.0	3.6	6.9	16	17	0.8	0.7	..	..	34	3
Tanzania	0.9	1.1	4.5	5.9	28	28	0.1	0.1	..	..	78	52
Thailand	1.5	1.2	7.0	5.0	420	455	1.1	1.1	..	3	60	251
Timor-Leste	3.0	1.1	2.5	2.3	1	2	0.3	0.4	..	..	18	..
Togo	1.7	5.4	7.9	15.9	9	10	0.4	0.3	..	..	1	59
Tonga	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Trinidad and Tobago	0.6	0.7	2.1	2.8	4	5	0.6	0.8	..	..	24	32
Tunisia	1.2	2.5	5.2	7.0	48	48	1.2	1.1	..	..	7	33
Turkiye	2.3	1.2	..	..	613	512	2.3	1.6	70	589	467	186
Turkmenistan	..	..	..	..	22	57	1.1	2.6	..	..	28	382
Turks and Caicos Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Tuvalu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Uganda	2.5	2.0	16.0	9.7	47	46	0.4	0.2	..	..	37	65
Ukraine	2.7	25.9	5.6	39.2	215	298	1.0	1.4	518	102	..	2,930
United Arab Emirates	6.0	..	18.7	..	51	63	1.2	1.0	39	18	646	714
United Kingdom	2.6	2.1	5.8	4.7	174	153	0.5	0.4	1,146	1,711	462	862
United States	4.9	3.3	12.3	9.3	1,569	1,395	1.0	0.8	8,391	15,351	961	733
Uruguay	1.9	1.8	6.3	6.1	25	22	1.5	1.3	..	..	20	7
Uzbekistan	..	..	..	..	87	68	0.7	0.5	209	..	30	22
Vanuatu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Venezuela, RB	1.0	0.6	..	..	115	343	0.9	3.2	40	..	211	98
Viet Nam	1.8	..	7.7	..	522	522	1.0	0.9	..	..	161	96
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	..	..	..	..	56	0	6.4	0.0	..	..	5	2
Yemen, Rep.	4.7	..	15.5	..	138	40	2.3	0.6	..	..	261	1
Zambia	1.4	1.1	7.7	4.0	17	16	0.4	0.2	..	..	1	2
Zimbabwe	0.8	0.8	4.5	4.9	51	51	1.0	0.9	..	..	..	20
World	2.5	2.2	6.7	6.2	28,134	27,406	0.9	0.8	19,363	27,833	25,729	33,610
East Asia & Pacific	1.5	1.6	5.5	4.9	8,455	7,909	0.7	0.6	..	3,750	6,411	5,342
Europe & Central Asia	1.8	2.0	3.9	4.7	5,243	5,005	1.2	1.2	13,975	14,347	4,559	9,050
Latin America & Caribbean	1.4	1.1	4.0	3.1	2,445	2,740	0.9	0.9	..	..	1,558	385
Middle East & North Africa	4.5	4.2	15.6	16.1	5,451	4,829	2.8	2.1	..	..	7,973	13,894
North America	4.5	3.2	11.2	8.6	1,635	1,467	0.9	0.8	8,587	15,530	1,203	936
South Asia	2.8	2.2	9.9	8.0	3,227	3,724	0.6	0.6	5	7	2,937	2,955
Sub-Saharan Africa	1.3	1.0	..	4.7	1,677	1,732	0.5	0.4	..	..	1,088	581
Low income	2.8	1.7	11.2	7.5	3,129	2,796	2.0	1.4	..	..	1,471	286
Lower middle income	2.3	1.9	9.5	7.8	7,863	8,318	0.8	0.7	..	..	7,045	6,751
Upper middle income	1.6	1.6	5.9	5.3	9,304	8,810	0.7	0.6	2,233	3,224	4,769	5,947
High income	2.8	2.6	6.8	6.5	7,585	7,001	1.2	1.0	22,594	30,472	12,175	20,573

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