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	..	..	360	234
Albania	1.6	1.3	5.3	3.8	15	8	1.2	0.6	0	..	15	1
Algeria	3.5	6.7	9.4	17.4	317	317	2.9	2.6	..	..	831	675
American Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Andorra	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Angola	4.2	1.4	10.6	7.5	117	117	1.2	0.9	..	..	20	51
Antigua and Barbuda	..	..	..	..	0	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	32
Aruba	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Australia	1.9	2.0	5.0	4.5	57	59	0.5	0.4	137	413	1,525	1,655
Austria	0.8	0.8	1.6	1.5	26	22	0.6	0.5	53	9	7	13
Azerbaijan	2.8	5.4	8.7	13.0	82	82	2.0	1.7	..	..	157	37
Bahamas, The	..	..	..	..	1	2	0.4	0.8	..	..	1	..
Bahrain	3.3	4.1	10.1	11.5	19	19	2.8	2.2	..	..	100	27
Bangladesh	1.3	1.3	11.2	9.2	221	227	0.4	0.3	..	..	36	59
Barbados	..	..	..	..	1	1	0.4	0.7	..	..	10	..
Belarus	1.3	1.2	30.3	30.3	183	155	3.6	3.1	161	59	75	13
Belgium	1.1	1.0	2.0	1.8	36	26	0.7	0.5	12	27	35	90
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	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4
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	..	..	0
Botswana	2.7	3.2	6.2	8.7	11	9	1.3	0.8	..	..	10	85
Brazil	1.5	1.4	3.9	3.2	713	762	0.7	0.7	143	162	256	140
Brunei Darussalam	2.9	4.1	7.9	10.9	9	8	4.7	3.7	24	..	33	0
Bulgaria	1.7	1.5	4.8	4.0	65	37	1.9	1.1	4	3	8	44
Burkina Faso	1.4	2.7	5.7	8.6	11	11	0.2	0.1	..	..	0	2
Burundi	2.5	2.0	6.7	7.6	51	51	1.3	1.0	..	..	2	2
Cambodia	1.5	2.4	7.1	9.3	191	191	2.8	2.2	..	..	34	28
Cameroon	1.4	1.0	8.5	5.8	23	34	0.3	0.3	..	..	10	0
Canada	1.2	1.4	2.8	2.7	66	72	0.3	0.3	219	110	241	220
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	..	..	42	4
Channel Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chile	2.2	2.1	9.6	7.2	104	122	1.3	1.3	100	0	473	295
China	1.7	1.8	7.0	4.8	2,945	2,535	0.4	0.3	1,472	704	942	884
Hong Kong SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Macao SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Colombia	3.6	3.5	12.0	10.5	442	481	2.0	1.8	0	4	261	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	..	..	28	3
Costa Rica	..	..	..	..	10	10	0.5	0.4	3	..	..	8
Cote d'Ivoire	1.6	1.3	..	..	19	134	0.2	1.4	..	1	..	3
Croatia	1.7	1.8	3.5	3.3	22	18	1.1	1.0	..	4	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	30
Czechia	1.2	1.3	2.7	2.8	29	25	0.5	0.5	5	31	13	9
Denmark	1.4	1.4	2.5	2.6	19	15	0.6	0.5	8	24	17	62
Djibouti	3.7	..	9.1	..	13	13	6.7	5.5	..	..	6	1
Dominica	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Dominican Republic	0.7	0.8	4.2	3.4	40	71	1.0	1.4	..	..	50	4
Ecuador	3.0	2.5	8.7	6.6	59	42	0.9	0.5	..	2	89	21
Egypt, Arab Rep.	2.0	1.2	6.2	4.5	836	836	2.9	2.8	..	41	688	1,403
El Salvador	1.1	1.4	4.3	4.3	33	42	1.3	1.5	..	..	2	4
Equatorial Guinea	2.5	1.5	6.2	10.2	1	1	0.4	0.2	..	..	3	0
Eritrea	..	..	..	..	202	202	14.4	12.6	..	..	..	..
Estonia	1.7	2.4	4.2	5.1	6	7	0.8	1.0	..	6	13	25
Ethiopia	1.1	0.5	6.1	3.6	138	138	0.3	0.3	..	..	54	24
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	69	12	52	53
France	2.0	2.0	3.5	3.3	342	304	1.1	1.0	864	2,378	106	215
French Polynesia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gabon	1.9	1.7	8.1	8.7	7	7	1.3	1.0	..	..	27	2
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	2,373	1,172	282	53
Ghana	0.4	0.4	1.4	1.3	16	16	0.1	0.1	..	..	2	10
Greece	2.8	2.8	5.2	4.6	150	147	2.9	3.1	..	7	630	101
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	..	..	5	1
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	5
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	55
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	2,898	2,847
Indonesia	0.6	0.9	3.7	4.9	582	676	0.5	0.5	4	17	229	276
Iran, Islamic Rep.	2.8	2.2	16.0	13.0	563	650	2.3	2.3	45	0	95	2
Iraq	2.7	3.3	5.5	7.6	802	341	10.6	3.2	..	..	439	4
Ireland	0.6	0.3	0.9	1.0	10	9	0.5	0.4	38	13	4	11
Isle of Man	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Israel	5.9	5.4	14.7	11.6	185	178	5.3	4.3	644	381	71	367
Italy	1.5	1.5	3.0	2.7	359	342	1.5	1.3	555	848	102	201
Jamaica	0.9	1.7	2.6	5.1	3	6	0.2	0.4	..	..	1	10
Japan	1.0	1.0	2.5	2.3	260	261	0.4	0.4	..	13	653	923
Jordan	5.9	4.9	17.9	14.9	111	116	6.4	4.2	117	66	89	157
Kazakhstan	1.0	0.9	4.5	3.7	81	71	0.9	0.8	..	..	58	269
Kenya	1.6	1.1	6.4	4.5	29	29	0.2	0.1	..	..	116	71
Kiribati	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
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	177	772	1,297	1,276
Kosovo	0.7	1.1	2.4	3.1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
Kuwait	3.8	6.5	8.4	9.8	23	25	1.5	1.0	..	..	85	66
Kyrgyz Republic	1.6	1.8	4.3	4.9	20	21	0.8	0.8	14	..	..	1
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	..	10	15	10
Lebanon	4.1	3.0	14.1	15.7	79	80	4.8	3.9	..	..	64	40
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	..	2	8	97
Luxembourg	0.5	0.6	1.1	1.2	2	1	0.6	0.3	..	0	10	88
North Macedonia	1.4	1.2	4.3	3.4	8	16	0.9	1.7	..	31	0	6
Madagascar	0.7	0.7	4.6	4.0	22	22	0.2	0.2	..	..	..	1
Malawi	0.7	1.1	2.6	3.3	5	15	0.1	0.2	..	..	1	19
Malaysia	1.5	1.0	5.6	3.9	134	136	1.1	0.8	0	1	213	57
Maldives	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	3
Mali	1.4	3.3	6.8	13.0	12	21	0.2	0.3	..	..	0	44
Malta	0.7	0.5	1.6	1.0	2	2	1.2	0.8	..	..	8	45
Marshall Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mauritania	3.1	2.5	12.4	13.1	21	21	2.4	2.0	..	..	10	34
Mauritius	0.1	0.2	0.6	0.5	2	3	0.3	0.5	..	..	..	1
Mexico	0.5	0.7	1.6	2.6	332	328	0.7	0.6	..	1	109	242
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
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	..	..	5
Morocco	3.4	4.3	10.9	11.7	246	246	2.1	2.1	..	21	309	12
Mozambique	0.9	2.0	3.3	6.2	11	11	0.1	0.1	..	..	0	1
Myanmar	3.9	3.0	21.5	13.8	513	513	2.2	2.1	..	..	59	216
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	0
Netherlands	1.3	1.5	2.8	3.2	43	41	0.5	0.4	366	462	181	575
New Caledonia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
New Zealand	1.3	1.5	3.1	3.4	10	9	0.4	0.3	75	20	78	125
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	..	..	1	18
Nigeria	0.5	0.6	3.2	5.2	162	223	0.3	0.3	..	2	189	108
Northern Mariana Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Norway	1.5	2.0	3.4	3.5	24	23	0.9	0.8	159	72	150	427
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	53	2,231	688
Palau	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Panama	..	..	..	..	12	28	0.7	1.4	..	1	7	4
Papua New Guinea	0.3	0.4	1.8	1.5	3	4	0.1	0.1	..	..	..	14
Paraguay	0.8	1.0	5.1	4.0	25	29	1.0	0.9	..	..	3	5
Peru	1.5	1.4	7.0	4.9	192	158	1.2	0.9	..	..	46	28
Philippines	1.2	1.0	6.4	3.9	166	155	0.4	0.3	..	..	3	348
Poland	1.8	2.3	4.0	4.7	121	189	0.7	1.0	28	0	169	143
Portugal	2.0	1.9	3.8	3.8	90	52	1.6	1.0	0	46	892	45
Puerto Rico	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Qatar	1.5	4.8	4.9	21.7	12	22	0.9	1.0	0	13	30	838
Romania	1.3	2.0	3.3	5.3	154	126	1.6	1.4	1	..	107	189
Russian Federation	3.6	4.3	10.1	10.6	1,430	1,454	1.9	2.0	6,158	3,904	25	1
Rwanda	1.3	1.4	5.1	4.9	35	35	1.0	0.9	..	..	11	58
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	..	1,093	2,491
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	34	16	132
Seychelles	0.7	1.6	2.1	2.9	1	0	..	..	..	..	7	10
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	25	24	962	154
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Slovak Republic	1.3	2.0	3.0	4.1	16	16	0.6	0.6	4	3	9	25
Slovenia	1.6	1.1	3.2	2.1	12	7	1.2	0.7	..	38	40	9
Solomon Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Somalia	..	..	..	..	2	20	0.1	0.7	..	..	..	2
South Africa	1.1	1.1	3.5	2.7	77	90	0.4	0.4	243	111	178	30
South Sudan	4.1	2.6	29.0	6.0	140	185	3.6	4.7	..	..	2	8
Spain	1.4	1.4	3.0	2.6	223	199	1.0	0.9	273	971	272	71
Sri Lanka	2.7	1.9	13.5	8.6	223	317	2.7	3.7	..	..	4	54
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	282	11	3
Switzerland	0.7	0.8	2.2	2.3	25	20	0.6	0.4	260	174	48	10
Syrian Arab Republic	4.1	..	13.6	..	403	269	6.6	4.7	20	..	413	84
Tajikistan	1.0	1.0	3.6	3.4	16	17	0.8	0.7	..	..	34	5
Tanzania	0.9	1.0	4.5	6.3	28	28	0.1	0.1	..	..	78	8
Thailand	1.5	1.5	6.7	5.7	420	455	1.1	1.1	..	3	60	145
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	5
Tonga	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Trinidad and Tobago	0.6	0.7	2.1	2.3	4	5	0.6	0.7	..	..	24	32
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	70	251	467	96
Turkmenistan	..	..	..	..	22	42	1.2	2.1	..	..	27	348
Turks and Caicos Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Tuvalu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Uganda	2.2	2.6	16.0	12.1	47	46	0.4	0.3	..	..	37	67
Ukraine	1.9	3.8	3.9	8.3	215	311	1.0	1.5	513	116	..	18
United Arab Emirates	6.0	..	18.7	..	51	63	0.9	1.0	39	191	643	564
United Kingdom	2.6	2.2	5.8	4.6	174	149	0.5	0.4	1,151	625	502	652
United States	4.9	3.7	12.3	8.2	1,569	1,388	1.0	0.8	8,336	9,426	1,085	801
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	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Vietnam	2.3	2.3	7.7	8.8	522	522	1.0	0.9	..	10	150	32
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	..	..	..	..	56	0	6.4	0.0	..	..	5	1
Yemen, Rep.	4.7	..	15.5	..	138	40	2.5	0.6	..	..	261	9
Zambia	1.4	1.2	7.7	3.4	17	16	0.4	0.3	..	..	1	3
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	..	..	25,702	23,320
East Asia & Pacific	1.5	1.7	5.5	4.8	8,455	7,993	0.7	0.6	..	2,289	6,355	6,222
Europe & Central Asia	1.8	1.8	3.9	3.8	5,243	4,993	1.2	1.1	14,039	11,479	4,588	3,918
Latin America & Caribbean	1.4	1.3	4.2	3.9	2,445	2,788	0.9	0.9	..	22	1,552	958
Middle East & North Africa	4.6	5.5	15.5	15.9	4,199	3,564	3.3	2.4	..	..	5,291	6,831
North America	4.6	3.6	11.2	7.6	1,635	1,460	0.9	0.8	8,555	9,536	1,326	1,021
South Asia	2.8	2.8	10.5	9.6	4,480	4,922	0.7	0.7	5	151	5,534	3,831
Sub-Saharan Africa	1.3	1.1	6.1	4.9	1,677	1,951	0.5	0.5	..	51	1,056	438
Low income	3.2	1.4	12.0	7.0	3,267	3,165	1.7	1.3	..	..	1,506	493
Lower middle income	2.4	2.4	9.8	8.8	8,906	9,724	0.9	0.8	..	300	7,938	6,881
Upper middle income	1.8	1.8	6.2	5.2	9,767	8,941	0.7	0.6	8,327	5,232	3,787	2,609
High income	2.8	2.6	6.7	5.5	6,080	5,498	1.0	0.9	16,453	18,431	12,263	13,258

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