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	5.0	307	165	4.6	1.8	..	..	360	65
Albania	1.6	1.6	5.3	5.1	15	8	1.2	0.6	0	..	15	1
Algeria	3.5	4.8	9.4	13.3	317	326	2.9	2.7	..	..	831	158
American Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Andorra	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Angola	4.2	1.3	10.6	6.9	117	117	1.2	0.9	..	..	20	46
Antigua and Barbuda	..	..	..	..	0	0	..	..	..	..	..	0
Argentina	0.8	0.4	2.4	1.3	104	103	0.6	0.5	1	..	11	39
Armenia	4.3	4.3	16.3	16.0	56	47	3.8	3.4	..	..	52	27
Aruba	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Australia	1.9	1.9	5.0	5.0	57	60	0.5	0.4	137	33	1,525	761
Austria	0.8	0.8	1.6	1.5	26	23	0.6	0.5	53	14	7	4
Azerbaijan	2.8	4.5	8.7	14.9	82	82	2.0	1.6	..	..	157	37
Bahamas, The	..	..	..	..	1	2	0.4	0.9	..	..	1	..
Bahrain	3.3	3.2	10.1	10.8	19	19	2.8	2.3	..	..	100	364
Bangladesh	1.2	1.1	11.2	7.7	221	227	0.4	0.3	..	..	36	184
Barbados	..	..	..	..	1	1	0.4	0.7	..	..	10	..
Belarus	1.3	1.2	30.3	32.1	183	158	3.6	3.1	161	57	75	225
Belgium	1.1	1.2	2.0	2.2	36	24	0.7	0.5	12	121	35	158
Belize	0.9	0.9	3.8	3.6	1	2	0.8	1.2	..	..	..	..
Benin	0.7	0.6	4.9	3.0	7	12	0.2	0.3	..	..	0	1
Bermuda	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Bhutan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4
Bolivia	1.7	1.5	5.4	3.9	83	71	1.7	1.2	..	..	1	26
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.3	0.8	2.6	2.0	11	11	0.7	0.8	14	..	..	12
Botswana	2.8	2.7	6.2	8.1	11	9	1.3	0.8	..	..	10	13
Brazil	1.5	1.1	3.9	2.9	713	762	0.7	0.7	143	6	256	472
Brunei Darussalam	2.9	2.4	7.9	9.2	9	8	4.7	3.7	24	..	33	0
Bulgaria	1.6	1.5	4.8	4.1	65	37	1.9	1.1	4	18	8	4
Burkina Faso	1.2	3.1	5.7	12.4	11	11	0.2	0.1	..	..	0	1
Burundi	2.5	2.8	6.7	7.2	51	31	1.3	0.6	..	..	2	..
Cambodia	1.5	2.1	7.1	7.7	191	191	2.8	2.2	..	..	34	14
Cameroon	1.3	0.9	8.5	5.6	23	34	0.3	0.3	..	..	10	2
Canada	1.2	1.2	2.8	2.9	66	72	0.3	0.4	219	171	241	155
Cabo Verde	0.5	0.5	1.3	1.6	1	1	0.6	0.4	..	..	2	..
Cayman Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Central African Republic	2.4	1.7	14.0	9.0	3	10	0.2	0.5	..	..	7	1
Chad	5.8	2.9	23.7	17.5	35	45	0.9	0.9	..	..	42	4
Channel Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chile	2.3	1.8	9.6	7.0	104	114	1.3	1.3	100	..	473	212
China	1.7	1.6	7.0	4.8	2,945	2,535	0.4	0.3	1,472	2,017	942	807
Hong Kong SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Macao SAR, China	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Colombia	3.6	3.1	12.0	9.2	442	428	2.0	1.7	0	4	261	44
Comoros	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
Congo, Dem. Rep.	0.9	0.6	..	..	159	134	0.7	0.4	..	..	151	1
Congo, Rep.	1.7	1.8	7.2	10.1	12	12	0.7	0.5	..	..	28	3
Costa Rica	..	..	..	..	10	10	0.5	0.4	3	..	..	..
Cote d'Ivoire	1.1	0.9	..	..	19	27	0.2	0.3	..	..	..	16
Croatia	1.7	2.2	3.5	3.9	22	20	1.1	1.1	..	4	11	29
Cuba	3.3	..	..	..	76	76	1.5	1.5	..	..	..	..
Curacao	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cyprus	1.9	1.8	4.4	4.5	13	13	2.1	2.0	..	..	44	11
Czechia	1.2	1.4	2.7	3.2	29	27	0.5	0.5	5	116	13	69
Denmark	1.4	1.4	2.5	2.9	19	15	0.6	0.5	8	67	17	145
Djibouti	2.6	..	9.1	..	13	13	6.7	5.5	..	..	6	17
Dominica	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Dominican Republic	0.7	0.7	4.2	3.9	40	71	1.0	1.5	..	..	50	5
Ecuador	3.0	2.2	8.7	6.3	59	42	0.9	0.5	..	..	89	1
Egypt, Arab Rep.	2.0	1.1	6.2	4.3	836	836	2.9	2.8	..	41	688	701
El Salvador	1.1	1.3	4.3	4.3	33	42	1.3	1.6	..	..	2	7
Equatorial Guinea	2.5	1.1	6.2	8.0	1	1	0.4	0.2	..	..	3	0
Eritrea	..	..	..	..	202	202	14.4	12.4	..	..	..	..
Estonia	1.7	2.1	4.2	5.3	6	7	0.8	1.0	..	6	13	17
Ethiopia	1.2	0.9	6.1	6.1	138	138	0.3	0.2	..	..	54	35
Faroe Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fiji	1.6	1.4	6.0	4.2	4	4	0.9	1.1	..	..	..	7
Finland	1.5	1.7	2.8	3.2	25	22	0.9	0.8	69	29	52	34
France	2.0	1.9	3.5	3.4	342	304	1.1	1.0	864	3,021	106	22
French Polynesia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Gabon	1.9	1.3	8.1	8.5	7	7	1.3	1.1	..	..	27	2
Gambia, The	0.5	0.7	3.4	3.0	1	4	0.1	0.5	..	..	16	..
Georgia	3.7	1.4	11.8	5.3	32	26	1.6	1.4	..	..	2	2
Germany	1.3	1.4	2.6	2.7	251	183	0.6	0.4	2,373	1,510	282	182
Ghana	0.3	0.4	1.4	1.5	16	16	0.1	0.1	..	..	2	4
Greece	2.8	3.7	5.2	7.3	150	147	3.0	3.2	..	7	630	493
Greenland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Grenada	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guam	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Guatemala	0.4	0.5	2.8	3.2	34	43	0.7	0.7	..	..	2	4
Guinea	2.3	2.0	11.4	11.3	19	13	0.6	0.3	..	..	5	1
Guinea-Bissau	1.8	1.6	9.8	7.2	6	4	1.3	0.6	..	..	..	..
Guyana	0.9	0.6	4.4	3.8	3	3	0.9	1.1	..	..	0	5
Haiti	..	0.1	..	0.7	0	1	0.0	0.0	..	..	..	..
Honduras	1.1	1.5	4.1	5.6	20	23	0.6	0.5	..	..	0	4
Hungary	1.0	1.5	2.1	3.3	35	46	0.8	1.0	..	..	18	59
Iceland	..	..	..	..	0	0	0.1	0.0	..	..	50	..
India	2.9	2.4	9.9	8.3	2,626	3,068	0.6	0.6	5	11	2,898	2,846
Indonesia	0.6	0.7	3.7	4.1	582	676	0.5	0.5	4	17	229	68
Iran, Islamic Rep.	2.8	2.6	16.0	17.3	563	650	2.3	2.4	45	123	95	2
Iraq	2.7	1.7	5.5	4.1	802	459	10.6	4.5	..	..	439	55
Ireland	0.6	0.2	0.9	1.0	10	9	0.5	0.4	38	46	4	11
Isle of Man	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Israel	5.9	4.5	14.7	12.2	185	178	5.3	4.2	644	831	71	829
Italy	1.5	1.7	3.0	3.2	359	338	1.5	1.3	555	1,825	102	236
Jamaica	0.9	1.3	2.6	4.5	3	6	0.2	0.4	..	..	1	28
Japan	0.9	1.1	2.5	2.5	260	261	0.4	0.4	..	13	653	1,291
Jordan	5.7	4.8	17.9	15.1	111	116	6.4	4.0	117	51	89	32
Kazakhstan	1.0	0.5	4.5	2.5	81	71	0.9	0.8	..	..	58	4
Kenya	1.4	1.0	6.4	4.1	29	24	0.2	0.1	..	..	116	1
Kiribati	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	..	..	..	..	1,379	1,469	9.6	9.6	5	..	1	..
Korea, Rep.	2.5	2.7	13.2	10.6	660	569	2.6	2.0	177	209	1,297	408
Kosovo	0.7	1.1	2.4	3.8	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Kuwait	3.8	4.5	8.4	11.6	23	25	1.5	1.0	..	..	85	2,249
Kyrgyz Republic	1.6	1.5	4.3	4.3	20	21	0.8	0.8	14	..	..	12
Lao PDR	0.2	..	0.9	..	129	129	5.2	4.4	..	..	14	3
Latvia	1.1	2.0	2.5	5.2	5	9	0.4	0.9	..	10	15	20
Lebanon	4.1	3.4	14.1	13.8	79	80	4.8	4.4	..	..	64	5
Lesotho	3.2	1.5	5.4	2.6	2	2	0.2	0.2	..	..	..	..
Liberia	0.8	1.3	1.8	1.6	2	2	0.1	0.1	..	..	..	0
Libya	3.7	..	8.2	..	76	0	3.6	0.0	27	..	37	..
Liechtenstein	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Lithuania	0.9	2.5	2.1	6.4	25	37	1.7	2.5	..	29	8	98
Luxembourg	0.4	0.7	1.1	1.6	2	1	0.6	0.3	..	0	10	0
North Macedonia	1.4	1.6	4.3	4.6	8	16	0.9	1.9	..	31	0	6
Madagascar	0.6	0.7	4.6	3.1	22	22	0.2	0.2	..	..	..	1
Malawi	0.7	0.6	2.6	2.9	5	15	0.1	0.2	..	..	1	19
Malaysia	1.5	1.0	5.6	4.3	134	136	1.1	0.8	0	..	213	71
Maldives	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	3
Mali	1.4	2.8	6.8	11.4	12	41	0.2	0.6	..	..	0	58
Malta	0.7	0.5	1.6	1.2	2	2	1.2	0.7	..	..	8	45
Marshall Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mauritania	3.1	2.3	12.4	12.2	21	21	2.4	2.0	..	..	10	..
Mauritius	0.1	0.2	0.6	0.6	2	3	0.3	0.5	..	..	..	4
Mexico	0.5	0.6	1.6	2.2	332	341	0.7	0.6	..	..	109	3
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Moldova	0.3	0.3	0.8	0.9	8	6	0.5	0.4	11	..	..	..
Monaco	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mongolia	0.8	0.6	2.4	1.8	17	18	1.5	1.3	..	..	27	..
Montenegro	1.8	1.6	3.9	3.9	13	12	5.4	4.4	18	..	..	2
Morocco	3.4	3.9	10.9	12.1	246	246	2.1	2.1	..	21	309	352
Mozambique	0.9	1.5	3.3	4.7	11	11	0.1	0.1	..	..	0	5
Myanmar	3.9	3.0	21.5	14.2	513	463	2.2	1.9	..	..	59	394
Namibia	3.5	3.0	10.5	8.3	15	16	2.0	1.7	..	..	3	..
Nepal	1.4	1.1	8.3	3.8	158	112	2.3	1.4	..	..	3	0
Netherlands	1.3	1.6	2.8	3.7	43	41	0.5	0.4	366	295	181	695
New Caledonia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
New Zealand	1.2	1.2	2.8	2.8	10	10	0.4	0.3	75	20	78	157
Nicaragua	0.5	0.5	2.2	2.0	12	12	0.5	0.4	..	..	14	..
Niger	0.9	1.7	6.0	7.2	11	10	0.2	0.1	..	..	1	26
Nigeria	0.5	0.6	3.2	4.2	162	223	0.3	0.3	..	3	189	54
Northern Mariana Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Norway	1.5	1.6	3.4	3.8	24	25	0.9	0.9	159	88	150	848
Oman	5.6	5.2	18.5	17.6	47	47	3.7	2.1	..	..	31	5
Pakistan	3.4	2.6	16.8	17.9	946	943	1.6	1.3	1	53	2,231	1,565
Palau	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Panama	..	..	..	..	12	28	0.7	1.5	..	..	7	8
Papua New Guinea	0.3	0.3	1.8	1.6	3	4	0.1	0.1	..	..	..	14
Paraguay	0.8	0.8	5.1	3.7	25	29	1.0	0.9	..	..	3	5
Peru	1.5	1.2	7.0	5.0	192	158	1.2	0.9	..	..	46	26
Philippines	1.2	1.0	6.4	3.9	166	157	0.4	0.4	..	..	3	338
Poland	1.8	2.4	4.0	5.8	121	189	0.7	1.0	28	452	169	639
Portugal	1.5	1.4	2.9	3.1	90	52	1.6	1.0	0	2	892	6
Puerto Rico	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Qatar	1.5	7.0	4.9	23.8	12	22	0.9	1.1	0	13	30	3,342
Romania	1.2	1.7	3.3	5.0	154	128	1.6	1.4	1	..	107	126
Russian Federation	3.6	4.1	10.1	10.4	1,430	1,454	1.9	2.0	6,158	2,820	25	129
Rwanda	1.2	1.4	5.1	4.5	35	35	1.0	0.7	..	..	11	58
Samoa	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
San Marino	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Sao Tome and Principe	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Saudi Arabia	8.6	7.4	25.9	27.8	249	282	2.3	1.8	1	..	1,093	2,272
Senegal	1.2	1.6	5.6	6.4	19	19	0.5	0.4	..	..	4	18
Serbia	2.1	2.3	4.9	5.2	29	32	0.9	1.0	31	3	16	335
Seychelles	0.7	1.4	2.1	3.2	1	0	..	..	..	..	7	..
Sierra Leone	1.0	0.6	4.8	2.7	11	9	0.5	0.3	..	..	2	..
Singapore	3.4	2.8	32.2	16.9	148	59	4.9	1.7	25	72	962	361
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Slovak Republic	1.2	1.8	3.0	3.8	16	18	0.6	0.7	4	71	9	2
Slovenia	1.6	1.2	3.2	2.5	12	7	1.2	0.7	..	38	40	9
Solomon Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Somalia	..	..	..	20.4	2	14	0.1	0.5	..	..	..	2
South Africa	1.0	0.7	3.5	2.2	77	89	0.4	0.4	243	48	178	30
South Sudan	4.1	3.0	29.0	5.5	140	53	3.6	1.3	..	..	2	8
Spain	1.4	1.5	3.0	3.1	223	199	1.0	0.9	273	950	272	173
Sri Lanka	2.7	1.4	13.5	8.6	223	317	2.7	3.7	..	..	4	7
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	1.1	..	..	182	..
Suriname	..	..	..	..	2	2	0.9	0.8	..	..	0	..
Eswatini	2.4	1.6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
Sweden	1.2	1.3	2.4	2.7	21	15	0.4	0.3	660	68	11	318
Switzerland	0.7	0.8	2.2	2.2	25	20	0.6	0.4	260	175	48	10
Syrian Arab Republic	4.1	..	13.6	..	403	269	6.6	5.4	20	..	413	11
Tajikistan	1.0	1.0	3.6	3.8	16	17	0.8	0.7	..	..	34	3
Tanzania	0.9	1.1	4.5	5.8	28	28	0.1	0.1	..	..	78	52
Thailand	1.5	1.2	6.7	4.6	420	455	1.1	1.1	..	3	60	113
Timor-Leste	3.0	1.1	2.5	2.5	1	2	0.3	0.4	..	..	18	..
Togo	1.7	5.4	7.9	17.5	9	10	0.4	0.3	..	..	1	42
Tonga	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Trinidad and Tobago	0.6	0.7	2.1	2.6	4	5	0.6	0.7	..	..	24	32
Tunisia	1.2	2.5	5.2	7.0	48	48	1.2	1.2	..	..	7	8
Turkiye	2.3	1.2	6.3	4.4	613	512	2.4	1.6	70	398	467	184
Turkmenistan	..	..	..	..	22	57	1.2	2.9	..	..	27	348
Turks and Caicos Islands	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Tuvalu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Uganda	2.5	2.1	16.0	10.1	47	46	0.4	0.3	..	..	37	48
Ukraine	1.9	33.5	3.9	7.3	215	298	1.0	1.4	513	50	..	2,644
United Arab Emirates	6.0	..	18.7	..	51	63	0.9	1.0	39	12	643	681
United Kingdom	2.6	2.2	5.8	5.3	174	153	0.5	0.4	1,151	1,504	502	799
United States	4.9	3.5	..	..	1,569	1,395	1.0	0.8	8,336	14,515	1,085	837
Uruguay	1.9	1.9	6.3	6.7	25	22	1.5	1.3	..	..	20	5
Uzbekistan	..	..	..	..	87	68	0.7	0.5	209	..	30	47
Vanuatu	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
Venezuela, RB	1.0	0.6	..	..	115	343	0.9	3.3	40	..	208	79
Viet Nam	2.3	..	7.7	..	522	522	1.0	1.0	..	..	150	95
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
West Bank and Gaza	..	..	..	..	56	0	6.4	0.0	..	..	5	..
Yemen, Rep.	4.7	..	15.5	..	138	40	2.5	0.6	..	..	261	..
Zambia	1.4	1.2	7.7	4.0	17	16	0.4	0.2	..	..	1	2
Zimbabwe	0.8	0.4	4.5	5.3	51	51	1.1	0.8	..	..	..	..
World	2.5	2.3	5.1	5.2	28,134	27,406	0.9	0.8	..	..	25,702	31,739
East Asia & Pacific	1.5	1.6	5.5	4.9	8,455	7,909	0.7	0.6	..	2,289	6,355	5,025
Europe & Central Asia	1.8	2.0	3.9	4.2	5,243	5,005	1.2	1.2	14,039	13,822	4,588	8,744
Latin America & Caribbean	1.4	1.1	4.2	3.3	2,445	2,740	0.9	0.9	..	..	1,552	624
Middle East & North Africa	4.7	4.6	15.6	19.5	4,199	3,721	3.3	2.5	..	..	5,291	11,115
North America	4.5	3.3	..	..	1,635	1,467	0.9	0.8	8,555	14,686	1,326	992
South Asia	2.8	2.3	10.6	9.1	4,480	4,832	0.7	0.7	5	11	5,534	4,602
Sub-Saharan Africa	1.2	1.0	..	4.8	1,677	1,732	0.5	0.4	..	..	1,056	438
Low income	2.6	1.4	15.0	7.6	3,267	2,934	1.7	1.2	..	..	1,506	247
Lower middle income	2.3	1.9	9.5	7.9	7,849	8,303	0.8	0.8	..	..	6,990	6,724
Upper middle income	1.6	1.6	6.0	4.7	9,328	8,835	0.7	0.6	2,242	2,341	4,702	5,347
High income	2.8	2.6	4.6	..	7,576	6,991	1.1	1.0	22,615	29,090	12,296	19,421

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