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🎖️ Military Share of Government Spending

Military expenditure as a share of general government spending.

📅 2025📏 %148 entries
62.9% – 9.0%9.0% – 5.8%5.7% – 4.4%4.4% – 3.2%2.7% – 0.0%No data
1
🇺🇦Ukraine
62.9%
2
🇩🇿Algeria
24.6%
3
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
23.5%
4
🇸🇴Somalia
20.8%
5
🇴🇲Oman
20.0%
6
🇦🇲Armenia
19.9%
7
🇷🇺Russia
19.8%
8
🇸🇸South Sudan
18.4%
9
🇸🇬Singapore
18.0%
10
🇮🇱Israel
17.8%
11
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
17.7%
12
🇱🇧Lebanon
16.6%
13
🇹🇩Chad
15.5%
14
🇳🇪Niger
15.2%
15
🇧🇮Burundi
14.9%
16
🇲🇱Mali
14.8%
17
🇵🇰Pakistan
13.8%
18
🇯🇴Jordan
13.5%
19
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
13.2%
20
🇨🇫Central African Republic
12.5%
21
🇮🇷Iran
11.2%
22
🇧🇭Bahrain
10.8%
23
🇰🇷South Korea
10.8%
24
🇲🇷Mauritania
10.8%
25
🇬🇳Guinea
10.6%
26
🇲🇦Morocco
10.3%
27
🇰🇼Kuwait
10.1%
28
🇻🇳Vietnam
9.9%
29
🇨🇴Colombia
9.3%
30
🇵🇱Poland
9.0%
31
🇺🇬Uganda
9.0%
32
🇧🇼Botswana
8.9%
33
🇺🇸United States
8.3%
34
🇮🇳India
8.2%
35
🇱🇻Latvia
8.2%
36
🇰🇭Cambodia
8.2%
37
🇨🇩DR Congo
8.1%
38
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
7.9%
39
🇱🇹Lithuania
7.6%
40
🇪🇪Estonia
7.5%
41
🇹🇳Tunisia
7.5%
42
🇧🇩Bangladesh
7.1%
43
🇹🇬Togo
7.1%
44
🇺🇾Uruguay
7.1%
45
🇳🇦Namibia
7.0%
46
🇦🇱Albania
6.7%
47
🇳🇴Norway
6.7%
48
🇩🇰Denmark
6.6%
49
🇨🇲Cameroon
6.5%
50
🇬🇦Gabon
6.5%

Highlights

As of 2025, Ukraine ranks first with 62.9%, followed by Algeria (24.6%) and Saudi Arabia (23.5%).

Ukraine is 2.6 times higher than Algeria, the runner-up.

Across 148 countries and territories, values run from 62.9% (Ukraine) to 0.0% (Panama), with a median of 5.0%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Asia, 3 from Africa and 2 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Military expenditure (% of general government expenditure), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Military expenditure (% of general government expenditure) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026