List of countries by past military expenditure

Last updated June 08, 2024

This is a list of countries by past military expenditure , starting 1987.

Methodology

Figures for the tables below are provided by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) database. They are presented in millions of United States dollars in current prices, converted at the exchange rate for the given year.^[1] If there is no data for a particular year, a cell is left blank. Although the database includes statistics for over 150 countries, per SIPRI's Terms and Condition permission is needed to directly reproduce more than 10% of the database.

1987–1989

* indicates "Military of COUNTRY" links.

Country	1987	1988	1989
Australia *	5,057	5,836	6,300
Brazil *	4,324	5,874	8,761
Canada *	8,694	9,897	10,747
China *			11,403
France *	29,280	30,327	29,666
West Germany *	32,650	33,569	32,142
India *	10,877	11,346	10,590
Iran *	15,263	18,889	16,302
Israel *	5,996	7,000	5,551
Italy *	15,653	17,404	17,676
Japan *	23,642	28,216	27,966
Poland *	1,765	1,784	1,494
Saudi Arabia *	14,460	13,335	12,750
South Korea *	6,041	7,732	9,469
Spain *	7,922	8,900	9,303
Soviet Union *	225,021	246,011	218,760
Turkey *	2,890	2,664	3,374
Great Britain *	31,232	34,304	33,499
United States *	304,087	309,661	321,867

1990–1999

* indicates "Military of COUNTRY" links.

Country	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Australia *	6,704	7,024	6,882	6,734	7,460	7,666	8,203	7,937	7.180	7,770
Brazil *	9,236	6,695	4,994	7,100	10,591	14,319	14,073	13,934	14,357	9,867
Canada *	11,415	11,339	10,789	10,269	9,577	9,177	8,616	7,945	7,749	8,211
China *	10,085	9,954	12,420	12,570	10,051	12,606	14,563	16,105	17,528	21,027
France *	35,774	35,869	37,902	35,775	37,289	40,124	38,978	34,698	33,634	32,673
Germany *	40,477	37,797	40,139	35,595	34,749	39,367	37,293	31,772	31,704	31,185
India *	10,537	8,622	8,083	8,254	8,881	9,754	9,905	11,465	11,921	13,096
Israel *	6,529	9,338	7,313	7,753	7,772	7,946	8,499	8,581	8,096	7,653
Italy *	20,735	21,586	22,177	18,242	18,063	17,186	20,793	20,156	20,825	21,016
Japan *	28,800	32,785	35,999	41,354	45,286	49,962	44,047	40,047	37,849	43,123
Russia *				7,767	13,548	12,742	15,826	17,557	7,956	6,469
Saudi Arabia *	16,355	16,355	15,360	16,451	14,280	13,200	13,340	18,127	20,862	18,320
South Korea *	10,111	10,957	11,615	12,377	13,519	16,085	16,409	14,848	10,458	12,095
Spain *	11,695	11,680	12,250	10,042	10,093	11,440	11,294	9,866	10,333	11,114
Soviet Union *	219,114
Turkey *	5,315	5,671	6,158	7,075	5,293	6,606	7,512	7,729	8,781	9,952
Great Britain *	38,944	42,074	40,775	34,086	34,494	34,248	34,491	35,675	36,866	36,453
United States *	325,129	299,373	325,034	316,719	308,084	295,853	287,961	293,168	290,996	298,095

2000–2009

* indicates "Military of COUNTRY" links.

Country	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Australia *	7,274	7,043	7,947	9,927	11,995	13,238	14,240	17,186	18,633	18,960
Brazil *	11,344	10,930	9,665	8,393	9,780	13,589	16,405	20,486	24,453	25,649
Canada *	8,299	8,376	8,495	9,958	11,336	12,988	14,810	17,417	19,342	18,936
China *	22,930	27,875	32,138	35,126	40,353	45,729	55,338	68,011	86,362	105,644
France *	28,403	27,952	30,578	38,569	44,525	44,442	45,792	50,684	55,366	56,441
Germany *	26,925	26,232	28,057	33,529	36,353	36,398	36,435	41,116	46,460	46,120
India *	14,228	14,601	14,750	16,334	20,239	23,072	23,952	28,255	33,002	38,722
Israel *	8,327	8,504	7,982	8,225	8,605	8,922	9,315	11,382	13,804	12,754
Italy *	19,879	19,519	21,610	26,824	30,261	29,738	29,633	31,982	36,840	34,054
Japan *	45,510	40,758	39,334	42,486	45,340	44,301	41,553	40,530	46,361	51,465
Russia *	9,228	11,683	13,944	16,974	20,995	27,337	34,518	43,535	56,184	51,532
Saudi Arabia *	19,964	21,027	18,502	18,747	20,910	25,392	29,581	35,470	38,223	41,267
South Korea *	13,801	12,942	14,102	15,847	17,830	22,160	25,177	27,726	26,072	24,576
Spain *	10,274	10,222	10,271	12,881	15,262	15,998	17,252	20,066	22,228	20,178
Turkey *	9,994	7,216	9,050	10,278	10,921	12,081	13,363	14,988	16,810	16,048
United Arab Emirates *	5,876	5,789	5,354	5,835	6,817	6,604	7,165	8,461	11,572	13,836
Great Britain *	35,255	35,332	39,660	46,943	53,970	55,152	57,483	65,986	65,619	57,915
United States *	320,086	331,806	378,463	440,532	492,999	533,203	558,335	589,586	656,756	705,917

2010–2019

* indicates "Military of COUNTRY" links.

Country	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Australia *	23,218	26,597	26,217	24,825	25,784	24,046	26,383	27,691	26,840	25,912
Brazil *	34,003	36,936	33,987	32,876	32,660	24,618	24,225	29,283	28,177	26,946
Canada *	19,361	21,394	20,452	18,516	17,854	17,938	17,783	22,270	22,729	22,198
China *	115,712	137,967	157,390	179,880	200,772	214,471	216,404	228,466	253,492	261,082
France *	52,044	54,121	50,217	52,001	53,135	45,647	47,371	49,196	51,410	50,119
Germany *	44,853	46,766	44,470	44,866	44,216	37,020	39,725	42,366	46,512	49,277
India *	46,090	49,634	47,217	47,404	50,914	51,296	56,638	64,559	66,258	71,125
Israel	13,875	15,163	14,601	16,325	17,810	16,517	17,488	19,434	19,759	20,465
Italy *	32,021	33,829	29,781	29,957	27,701	22,181	25,033	26,448	27,808	26,790
Japan *	54,655	60,762	60,012	49,024	46,881	42,106	46,472	45,387	46,618	47,609
Russia *	58,720	70,238	81,469	88,353	84,697	66,418	69,245	66,527	61,388	65,103
Saudi Arabia *	45,245	48,531	56,498	67,020	80,726	87,186	63,673	70,400	74,400	61,867
South Korea *	28,175	30,992	31,952	34,137	37,552	36,571	36,885	39,171	43,070	43,891
Spain *	19,711	19,695	18,861	17,243	17,179	15,189	14,015	16,044	17,823	17,177
Turkey *	17,650	17,006	17,694	18,428	17,577	15,669	17,828	17,823	19,649	20,448
United Arab Emirates *	17,505	19,182	19,024	23,561	22,755	-	-	-
Great Britain *	58,083	60,270	58,496	56,862	59,183	53,862	48,119	46,433	49,892	48,650
United States *	738,005	752,288	725,205	679,229	647,789	633,830	639,856	646,753	682,491	731,751

2020–2023

* indicates "Military of COUNTRY" links.

Country	2020	2021	2022	2023
Algeria *	9,708	9,112	9,145	18,264
Australia *	27,300	32,718	32,445	32,340
Brazil *	19,591	19,187	20,542	22,887
Canada *	23,082	25,362	25,567	27,221
China *	257,973	285,930	291,958	296,438
France *	52,747	56,647	53,638	61,301
Germany *	53,318	56,513	56,153	66,826
Great Britain *	58,332	65,136	64,081	74,942
India *	72,937	76,348	79,976	83,574
Israel *	21,816	24,341	23,406	27,498
Italy *	32,929	36,232	34,691	35,528
Japan *	51,396	50,957	46,880	50,161
Netherlands *	13,085	14,395	13,632	16,624
Poland *	13,718	15,295	15,341	31,649
Russia *	61,712	65,907	102,366	109,454
Saudi Arabia *	64,558	63,194	70,920	75,813
South Korea *	46,117	50,873	46,365	47,925
Spain *	17,431	19,544	20,306	23,699
Taiwan *	12,029	13,932	15,261	16,612
Turkey *	17,478	15,567	10,779	15,827
Ukraine *	6,838	6,898	41,183	64,753
United States *	778,397	806,230	860,692	916,014

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[1] Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: Military Expenditure Database, sipri.org, Accessed 18 May 2020 (Download data for all countries from 1949-2019 as an Excel spreadsheet.)

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List of countries by past military expenditure

Contents

Methodology

1987–1989

1990–1999

2000–2009

2010–2019

2020–2023

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