Military expenditure (current LCU)

Military expenditure in local currency at current prices (by calendar year)

📅 2025📏 current LCU149 entries

Asia · 33

Africa · 48

Americas · 24

Europe · 40

Oceania · 4

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (current LCU); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇮🇷Iran

4,899,887,835,250,000

🇻🇳Vietnam

272,716,000,000,000

🇮🇩Indonesia

247,525,700,000,000

🇱🇧Lebanon

74,023,600,000,000

🇰🇷South Korea

67,924,500,000,000

🇨🇴Colombia

58,748,000,000,000

🇷🇺Russia

15,963,560,000,000

🇿🇼Zimbabwe

10,608,843,890,000

🇯🇵Japan

9,301,275,000,000

🇮🇶Iraq

8,445,600,000,000

🇮🇳India

8,022,713,500,000

🇬🇳Guinea

5,204,787,000,000

🇨🇱Chile

5,068,700,000,000

🇦🇷Argentina

4,820,968,000,000

🇺🇬Uganda

4,671,800,000,000

🇺🇦Ukraine

3,507,650,000,000

🇩🇿Algeria

3,349,500,000,000

🇵🇰Pakistan

3,341,675,000,000

🇨🇩DR Congo

3,322,700,000,000

🇳🇬Nigeria

3,196,000,000,000

🇵🇾Paraguay

3,186,900,000,000

🇰🇭Cambodia

2,964,720,000,000

🇹🇿Tanzania

2,639,095,000,000

🇨🇳China

2,411,600,000,000

🇭🇺Hungary

1,765,140,000,000

🇦🇴Angola

1,336,700,000,000

🇹🇷Türkiye

1,186,520,199,581

🇺🇸United States

954,387,000,000

🇸🇸South Sudan

798,303,000,000

🇲🇳Mongolia

784,565,500,000

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

682,300,000,000

🇧🇮Burundi

670,494,000,000

🇦🇲Armenia

667,880,000,000

🇲🇱Mali

554,092,000,000

🇲🇬Madagascar

542,693,000,000

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

518,422,000,000

🇧🇩Bangladesh

466,168,000,000

🇨🇮Ivory Coast

441,600,000,000

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

418,254,000,000

🇹🇩Chad

377,270,000,000

🇵🇭Philippines

366,718,000,000

🇨🇲Cameroon

364,860,000,000

🇸🇳Senegal

329,637,000,000

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

311,930,000,000

🇷🇸Serbia

288,940,466,000

🇳🇪Niger

284,280,000,000

🇲🇼Malawi

282,401,750,000

🇷🇼Rwanda

273,650,000,000

🇲🇽Mexico

262,173,900,000

🇬🇦Gabon

207,072,000,000

Highlights

As of 2025, Iran ranks first with 4,899,887,835,250,000, followed by Vietnam (272,716,000,000,000) and Indonesia (247,525,700,000,000).

Iran is 18 times higher than Vietnam, the runner-up.

Across 149 countries and territories, values run from 4,899,887,835,250,000 (Iran) to 0 (Panama), with a median of 54,106,000,000.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia, 1 from Africa, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Military expenditure (current LCU), 2025. Unit: current LCU.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Military expenditure (current LCU) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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