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	2020	2010	2020	2010	2019	2010	2019	2010	2020	2010	2020

Afghanistan	1.9	1.4	9.4	5.0	307	278	4.5	2.8	..	..	377	227
Albania	1.6	1.3	5.3	3.8	15	8	1.2	0.6	0	..	15	5
Algeria	3.5	6.7	9.4	17.4	317	317	2.9	2.6	..	..	835	549
American Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Andorra	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Angola	4.2	1.4	10.6	7.5	117	117	1.2	0.9	..	..	20	42
Antigua and Barbuda	..	..	..	..	0	0	..	..	..	..	..	..
Argentina	0.8	0.7	2.4	1.7	104	103	0.6	0.5	1	..	11	7
Armenia	4.3	5.0	16.3	16.3	56	49	3.8	3.5	..	..	52	248
Aruba	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Australia	1.9	2.0	5.0	4.5	57	59	0.5	0.4	115	396	1,513	1,658
Austria	0.8	0.8	1.6	1.5	26	22	0.6	0.5	54	9	7	13
Azerbaijan	2.8	5.4	8.7	13.0	82	82	2.0	1.7	..	..	155	29
Bahamas, The	..	..	..	..	1	2	0.4	0.8	..	..	1	..
Bahrain	3.3	4.1	10.1	11.5	19	19	2.8	2.2	..	..	103	15
Bangladesh	1.3	1.3	11.2	9.2	221	227	0.4	0.3	..	..	36	46
Barbados	..	..	..	..	1	1	0.4	0.7	..	..	10	..
Belarus	1.3	1.2	30.3	30.3	183	155	3.6	3.1	159	23	75	13
Belgium	1.1	1.0	2.0	1.8	36	26	0.7	0.5	9	53	32	86
Belize	1.1	1.7	3.8	4.1	1	2	0.8	1.1	..	..	..	..
Benin	0.7	0.5	4.9	2.4	7	12	0.2	0.3	..	..	0	1
Bermuda	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Bhutan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Bolivia	1.7	1.3	5.4	3.7	83	71	1.7	1.2	..	..	1	26
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.3	0.8	2.6	1.9	11	11	0.7	0.8	14	..	..	1
Botswana	2.7	3.2	6.2	8.7	11	9	1.3	0.8	..	..	10	88
Brazil	1.5	1.4	3.9	3.2	713	762	0.7	0.7	143	170	310	158
Brunei Darussalam	2.9	4.1	7.9	10.9	9	8	4.7	3.7	24	..	33	..
Bulgaria	1.7	1.5	4.8	4.0	65	37	1.9	1.1	4	10	8	44
Burkina Faso	1.4	2.7	5.7	8.6	11	11	0.2	0.1	..	..	0	0
Burundi	2.5	2.0	6.7	7.6	51	51	1.3	1.0	..	..	2	..
Cambodia	1.5	2.4	7.1	9.3	191	191	2.8	2.2	..	..	34	1
Cameroon	1.4	1.0	8.5	5.8	23	34	0.3	0.3	..	..	10	4
Canada	1.2	1.4	2.8	2.7	66	72	0.3	0.3	237	200	228	207
Cabo Verde	0.5	0.6	1.3	1.9	1	1	0.6	0.4	..	..	2	3
Cayman Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Central African Republic	2.6	2.0	14.0	7.4	3	10	0.2	0.5	..	..	7	1
Chad	5.8	3.1	23.7	15.8	35	45	0.9	0.9	..	..	38	2
Channel Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chile	2.2	2.1	9.6	7.2	104	122	1.3	1.3	100	0	473	293
China	1.7	1.8	7.0	4.8	2,945	2,535	0.4	0.3	1,475	760	981	811
Hong Kong SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Macao SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Colombia	3.6	3.5	12.0	10.5	442	481	2.0	1.8	0	4	255	77
Comoros	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
Congo, Dem. Rep.	0.9	0.7	5.3	6.3	159	134	0.7	0.4	..	..	151	6
Congo, Rep.	1.8	3.4	7.2	12.3	12	0	0.7	0.0	..	..	27	..
Costa Rica	..	..	..	..	10	10	0.5	0.4	0	..	1	..
Cote d'Ivoire	1.6	1.3	..	..	19	134	0.2	1.4	..	1	..	7
Croatia	1.7	1.8	3.5	3.3	22	18	1.1	1.0	..	..	11	5
Cuba	3.3	2.9	..	..	76	76	1.5	1.4	..	..	..	..
Curacao	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cyprus	1.9	2.1	4.4	4.4	13	16	2.1	2.5	..	..	44	29
Czechia	1.2	1.3	2.7	2.8	29	25	0.5	0.5	..	..	..	..
Denmark	1.4	1.4	2.5	2.6	19	15	0.6	0.5	8	4	17	65
Djibouti	3.7	..	9.1	..	13	13	6.7	5.5	..	..	6	8
Dominica	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Dominican Republic	0.7	0.8	4.2	3.4	40	71	1.0	1.4	..	..	50	..
Ecuador	3.0	2.5	8.7	6.6	59	42	0.9	0.5	..	2	89	23
Egypt, Arab Rep.	2.0	1.2	6.2	4.5	836	836	2.9	2.8	..	2	686	1,311
El Salvador	1.1	1.4	4.3	4.3	33	42	1.3	1.5	..	..	2	6
Equatorial Guinea	2.5	1.5	6.2	10.2	1	1	0.4	0.2	..	..	3	7
Eritrea	..	..	..	..	202	202	14.4	12.6	..	..	..	..
Estonia	1.7	2.4	4.2	5.1	6	7	0.8	1.0	..	..	13	15
Ethiopia	1.1	0.5	6.1	3.6	138	138	0.3	0.3	..	..	54	74
Faroe Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fiji	1.5	1.7	6.0	4.8	4	4	0.9	1.1	..	..	..	7
Finland	1.5	1.5	2.8	2.7	25	27	0.9	1.0	70	12	52	45
France	2.0	2.0	3.5	3.3	342	304	1.1	1.0	870	1,995	106	145
French Polynesia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gabon	1.9	1.7	8.1	8.7	7	7	1.3	1.0	..	..	22	25
Gambia, The	0.5	0.8	3.4	3.2	1	4	0.1	0.5	..	..	16	..
Georgia	3.7	1.8	11.8	5.2	32	26	1.6	1.4	..	..	2	6
Germany	1.3	1.4	2.6	2.7	251	184	0.6	0.4	2,666	1,232	282	33
Ghana	0.4	0.4	1.4	1.3	16	16	0.1	0.1	..	..	2	4
Greece	2.8	2.8	5.2	4.6	150	147	2.9	3.1	..	17	630	85
Greenland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Grenada	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guam	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	0.4	0.5	2.8	2.8	34	43	0.7	0.7	..	..	2	14
Guinea	2.3	1.4	11.4	8.6	19	13	0.6	0.3	..	..	4	..
Guinea-Bissau	2.0	1.7	9.8	6.3	6	4	1.3	0.6	..	..	..	..
Guyana	1.4	1.4	4.4	4.6	3	3	0.9	1.1	..	..	0	2
Haiti	..	0.3	..	1.8	0	1	0.0	0.0	..	..	..	..
Honduras	1.1	1.4	4.1	5.3	20	23	0.6	0.5	..	..	0	0
Hungary	1.0	1.9	2.1	3.5	35	40	0.8	0.8	..	..	18	67
Iceland	..	..	..	..	0	0	0.1	0.0	..	..	50	..
India	2.9	2.9	9.9	8.8	2,626	3,045	0.6	0.6	5	151	2,911	2,799
Indonesia	0.6	0.9	3.7	4.9	582	676	0.5	0.5	4	9	225	270
Iran, Islamic Rep.	2.8	2.2	16.0	13.0	563	650	2.3	2.3	45	..	97	2
Iraq	2.7	3.3	5.5	7.6	802	341	10.6	3.2	..	..	436	1
Ireland	0.6	0.3	0.9	1.0	10	9	0.5	0.4	26	..	5	11
Isle of Man	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Israel	5.9	5.4	14.7	11.6	185	178	5.3	4.3	640	345	68	474
Italy	1.5	1.5	3.0	2.7	359	342	1.5	1.3	538	806	102	131
Jamaica	0.9	1.7	2.6	5.1	3	6	0.2	0.4	..	..	1	15
Japan	1.0	1.0	2.5	2.3	260	261	0.4	0.4	..	3	403	724
Jordan	5.9	4.9	17.9	14.9	111	116	6.4	4.2	117	13	90	148
Kazakhstan	1.0	0.9	4.5	3.7	81	71	0.9	0.8	..	..	58	268
Kenya	1.6	1.1	6.4	4.5	29	29	0.2	0.1	..	..	116	60
Kiribati	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	..	..	..	..	1,379	1,469	9.6	9.4	5	..	1	..
Korea, Rep.	2.5	2.8	13.2	11.0	660	613	2.6	2.1	198	827	1,299	1,317
Kosovo	0.7	1.1	2.4	3.1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Kuwait	3.8	6.5	8.4	9.8	23	25	1.5	1.0	..	..	85	67
Kyrgyz Republic	1.6	1.8	4.3	4.9	20	21	0.8	0.8	14	..	..	15
Lao PDR	0.2	..	0.9	..	129	129	5.2	4.4	..	..	14	17
Latvia	1.1	2.3	2.5	5.2	5	6	0.4	0.6	..	..	15	5
Lebanon	4.1	3.0	14.1	15.7	79	80	4.8	3.9	..	..	64	39
Lesotho	2.8	1.6	5.6	3.4	2	2	0.2	0.2	..	..	..	1
Liberia	0.8	0.9	1.8	1.2	2	2	0.1	0.1	..	..	..	0
Libya	3.7	..	8.2	..	76	..	3.6	..	27	..	37	..
Liechtenstein	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Lithuania	0.9	2.1	2.1	4.9	25	37	1.7	2.5	..	60	8	211
Luxembourg	0.5	0.6	1.1	1.2	2	1	0.6	0.3	..	..	7	85
North Macedonia	1.4	1.2	4.3	3.4	8	16	0.9	1.7	..	..	..	..
Madagascar	0.7	0.7	4.6	4.0	22	22	0.2	0.2	..	..	0	1
Malawi	0.7	1.1	2.6	3.3	5	15	0.1	0.2	..	..	1	..
Malaysia	1.5	1.0	5.6	3.9	134	136	1.1	0.8	0	..	423	55
Maldives	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	3
Mali	1.4	3.3	6.8	13.0	12	21	0.2	0.3	..	..	0	31
Malta	0.7	0.5	1.6	1.0	2	2	1.2	0.8	..	..	8	..
Marshall Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mauritania	3.1	2.5	12.4	13.1	21	21	2.4	2.0	..	..	9	34
Mauritius	0.1	0.2	0.6	0.5	2	3	0.3	0.5	..	..	..	..
Mexico	0.5	0.7	1.6	2.6	332	328	0.7	0.6	..	1	109	257
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Moldova	0.3	0.4	0.8	1.1	8	6	0.8	0.7	11	..	..	..
Monaco	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mongolia	0.8	0.8	2.4	2.1	17	18	1.5	1.3	..	..	27	17
Montenegro	1.8	1.7	3.9	3.2	13	12	5.4	4.1	18	..	..	2
Morocco	3.4	4.3	10.9	11.7	246	246	2.1	2.1	..	..	306	7
Mozambique	0.9	2.0	3.3	6.2	11	11	0.1	0.1	..	..	0	22
Myanmar	3.9	3.0	21.5	13.8	513	513	2.2	2.1	..	..	56	148
Namibia	3.5	3.2	10.5	8.4	15	16	2.0	1.7	..	..	3	..
Nepal	1.6	1.4	8.3	4.8	158	112	2.3	1.4	..	..	3	36
Netherlands	1.3	1.5	2.8	3.2	43	41	0.5	0.4	370	488	190	610
New Caledonia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
New Zealand	1.3	1.5	3.1	3.4	10	9	0.4	0.3	75	6	58	129
Nicaragua	0.5	0.7	2.2	2.2	12	12	0.5	0.4	..	..	14	13
Niger	1.2	2.4	6.0	7.6	11	10	0.2	0.1	..	..	0	3
Nigeria	0.5	0.6	3.2	5.2	162	223	0.3	0.3	..	..	188	125
Northern Mariana Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Norway	1.5	2.0	3.4	3.5	24	23	0.9	0.8	159	72	159	450
Oman	6.4	9.8	18.5	18.1	47	47	3.7	1.9	..	..	31	85
Pakistan	3.4	4.0	16.8	17.4	946	943	1.6	1.3	1	1	2,205	759
Palau	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Panama	..	..	..	..	12	28	0.7	1.4	..	1	7	11
Papua New Guinea	0.3	0.4	1.8	1.5	3	4	0.1	0.1	..	..	..	7
Paraguay	0.8	1.0	5.1	4.0	25	29	1.0	0.9	..	..	3	2
Peru	1.5	1.4	7.0	4.9	192	158	1.2	0.9	..	..	46	19
Philippines	1.2	1.0	6.4	3.9	166	155	0.4	0.3	..	..	3	349
Poland	1.8	2.3	4.0	4.7	121	189	0.7	1.0	28	13	169	193
Portugal	2.0	1.9	3.8	3.8	90	52	1.6	1.0	0	46	893	47
Puerto Rico	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Qatar	1.5	4.8	4.9	21.7	12	22	0.9	1.0	0	11	30	783
Romania	1.3	2.0	3.3	5.3	154	126	1.6	1.4	1	..	107	187
Russian Federation	3.6	4.3	10.1	10.6	1,430	1,454	1.9	2.0	6,214	3,203	25	26
Rwanda	1.3	1.4	5.1	4.9	35	35	1.0	0.9	..	..	11	1
Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
San Marino	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sao Tome and Principe	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Saudi Arabia	8.6	9.2	25.9	22.5	249	252	2.3	1.6	1	..	1,083	2,466
Senegal	1.2	1.4	5.6	5.3	19	19	0.5	0.4	..	..	4	22
Serbia	2.1	2.1	4.9	4.4	29	32	0.9	1.0	31	33	16	133
Seychelles	0.7	1.6	2.1	2.9	1	0	..	..	..	..	7	8
Sierra Leone	1.0	0.5	4.8	2.1	11	9	0.5	0.3	..	..	2	..
Singapore	3.4	2.9	32.2	11.0	148	59	4.9	1.7	26	..	958	74
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Slovak Republic	1.3	2.0	3.0	4.1	16	16	0.6	0.6	4	1	9	36
Slovenia	1.6	1.1	3.2	2.1	12	7	1.2	0.7	..	..	40	..
Solomon Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Somalia	..	..	..	..	2	20	0.1	0.7	..	..	..	3
South Africa	1.1	1.1	3.5	2.7	77	90	0.4	0.4	235	37	180	..
South Sudan	4.1	2.6	29.0	6.0	140	185	3.6	4.7	..	..	2	..
Spain	1.4	1.4	3.0	2.6	223	199	1.0	0.9	262	1,201	288	57
Sri Lanka	2.7	1.9	13.5	8.6	223	317	2.8	3.7	..	..	4	59
St. Kitts and Nevis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Lucia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Martin (French part)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sudan	5.5	1.1	29.1	9.1	127	124	1.3	1.0	..	..	182	18
Suriname	..	..	..	..	2	2	0.9	0.8	..	..	0	..
Eswatini	2.3	1.8	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
Sweden	1.2	1.2	2.4	2.2	21	15	0.4	0.3	660	286	11	3
Switzerland	0.7	0.8	2.2	2.3	25	20	0.6	0.4	264	179	48	10
Syrian Arab Republic	4.1	..	13.6	..	403	269	6.6	4.7	20	..	413	72
Tajikistan	1.0	1.0	3.6	3.4	16	17	0.8	0.7	..	..	34	4
Tanzania	0.9	1.0	4.5	6.3	28	28	0.1	0.1	..	..	78	32
Thailand	1.5	1.5	6.7	5.7	420	455	1.1	1.1	..	..	48	132
Timor-Leste	0.7	1.2	2.5	2.9	1	2	0.3	0.4	..	..	18	..
Togo	1.7	2.8	7.9	9.4	9	10	0.4	0.4	..	..	1	1
Tonga	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Trinidad and Tobago	0.6	0.7	2.1	2.3	4	5	0.6	0.7	..	..	24	..
Tunisia	1.3	2.9	5.2	7.9	48	48	1.2	1.1	..	..	7	15
Turkiye	2.3	2.4	6.3	7.2	613	512	2.4	1.5	72	141	485	86
Turkmenistan	..	..	..	..	22	42	1.2	2.1	..	..	27	10
Turks and Caicos Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Tuvalu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Uganda	2.2	2.6	16.0	12.1	47	46	0.4	0.3	..	..	37	13
Ukraine	1.9	3.8	3.9	8.3	215	311	1.0	1.5	485	115	..	18
United Arab Emirates	6.0	..	18.7	..	51	63	0.9	1.0	39	191	644	432
United Kingdom	2.6	2.2	5.8	4.6	174	149	0.5	0.4	1,157	429	493	764
United States	4.9	3.7	12.3	8.2	1,569	1,388	1.0	0.8	8,062	9,372	1,091	687
Uruguay	1.9	2.2	6.3	6.2	25	22	1.5	1.3	..	..	20	25
Uzbekistan	..	3.6	..	11.0	87	68	0.7	0.5	209	..	30	46
Vanuatu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Venezuela, RB	1.0	0.2	..	..	115	343	0.9	3.0	40	..	208	51
Vietnam	2.3	2.3	7.7	8.8	522	522	1.0	0.9	..	..	150	41
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	..	..	..	..	56	0	6.4	0.0	..	..	6	2
Yemen, Rep.	4.7	..	15.5	..	138	40	2.5	0.6	..	..	258	9
Zambia	1.4	1.2	7.7	3.4	17	16	0.4	0.3	..	..	1	1
Zimbabwe	0.8	0.0	112.8	1.9	51	51	1.1	0.9	..	..	..	..
World	2.5	2.4	6.7	5.6	28,134	27,671	0.9	0.8	..	..	25,718	22,400
East Asia & Pacific	1.5	1.7	5.5	4.8	8,455	7,993	0.7	0.6	..	..	6,325	5,848
Europe & Central Asia	1.8	1.8	3.9	3.8	5,243	4,993	1.2	1.1	14,334	10,353	4,612	3,998
Latin America & Caribbean	1.4	1.3	4.2	3.9	2,445	2,788	0.9	0.9	..	22	1,600	951
Middle East & North Africa	4.6	5.5	15.5	15.9	4,199	3,564	3.3	2.4	..	..	5,279	6,466
North America	4.6	3.6	11.2	7.6	1,635	1,460	0.9	0.8	8,299	9,572	1,319	894
South Asia	2.8	2.8	10.5	9.6	4,480	4,922	0.7	0.7	5	151	5,538	3,834
Sub-Saharan Africa	1.3	1.1	6.1	4.9	1,677	1,951	0.5	0.5	..	..	1,045	..
Low income	1.7	1.3	12.6	6.6	2,831	2,956	1.4	1.1	..	..	1,138	656
Lower middle income	2.1	2.1	8.9	8.4	9,430	10,297	0.8	0.8	..	..	8,057	6,701
Upper middle income	1.8	1.9	6.3	5.2	9,209	8,342	0.8	0.7	8,495	4,384	3,938	2,402
High income	2.8	2.6	6.7	5.5	6,078	5,495	1.0	0.9	16,460	18,171	11,995	12,885

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