{
  "name": "Military expenditure: the world, Ukraine and NATO",
  "identifier": "military-expenditure-nato-and-world",
  "description": "How much the world's biggest military spenders pay, where Ukraine ranks among them, how Ukraine's own military spending has moved over the last decade, and what each NATO ally now spends as a share of its economy -- read from the World Bank's API and NATO's own published report, never from SIPRI directly.",
  "url": "https://miltechinsider.com/datasets/military-expenditure-nato-and-world/",
  "date_published": "2026-08-03",
  "world_bank": {
    "attribution": "World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0), sourced from SIPRI Military Expenditure Database.",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-08-03T00:00:00Z",
    "license": {
      "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",
      "url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses"
    },
    "top15_military_expenditure": [
      {
        "country": "United States",
        "iso3": "USA",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 997309000000,
        "pct_gdp": 3.41921653228044
      },
      {
        "country": "China",
        "iso3": "CHN",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 313658330217.176,
        "pct_gdp": 1.71129740345228
      },
      {
        "country": "Russian Federation",
        "iso3": "RUS",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 148967275140.483,
        "pct_gdp": 7.05233864500366
      },
      {
        "country": "Germany",
        "iso3": "DEU",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 88458476389.5109,
        "pct_gdp": 1.89190377205494
      },
      {
        "country": "India",
        "iso3": "IND",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 86125976248.5524,
        "pct_gdp": 2.2712033218142
      },
      {
        "country": "United Kingdom",
        "iso3": "GBR",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 81763173069.6744,
        "pct_gdp": 2.2786177901127
      },
      {
        "country": "Saudi Arabia",
        "iso3": "SAU",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 80330666666.6667,
        "pct_gdp": 7.2981029390103
      },
      {
        "country": "Ukraine",
        "iso3": "UKR",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 64704990025.4782,
        "pct_gdp": 34.4815297701892
      },
      {
        "country": "France",
        "iso3": "FRA",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 64675015306.1997,
        "pct_gdp": 2.05257687860637
      },
      {
        "country": "Japan",
        "iso3": "JPN",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 55273904316.7083,
        "pct_gdp": 1.37139689580634
      },
      {
        "country": "Korea, Rep.",
        "iso3": "KOR",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 47571318596.7228,
        "pct_gdp": 2.56205259386748
      },
      {
        "country": "Israel",
        "iso3": "ISR",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 46505298369.3376,
        "pct_gdp": 8.77671668977531
      },
      {
        "country": "Poland",
        "iso3": "POL",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 38000728652.37,
        "pct_gdp": 4.15439387975356
      },
      {
        "country": "Italy",
        "iso3": "ITA",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 37964578316.9022,
        "pct_gdp": 1.60924561245844
      },
      {
        "country": "Australia",
        "iso3": "AUS",
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 33819572368.4211,
        "pct_gdp": 1.8837883329175
      }
    ],
    "ukraine_decade": [
      {
        "year": 2013,
        "expenditure_usd": 4386419892.40586,
        "pct_gdp": 2.3928953083474
      },
      {
        "year": 2014,
        "expenditure_usd": 3961551378.68037,
        "pct_gdp": 2.96736825853937
      },
      {
        "year": 2015,
        "expenditure_usd": 3502733744.23874,
        "pct_gdp": 3.84784847607093
      },
      {
        "year": 2016,
        "expenditure_usd": 3423286810.50984,
        "pct_gdp": 3.66861786886462
      },
      {
        "year": 2017,
        "expenditure_usd": 3647565195.54035,
        "pct_gdp": 3.24149291547879
      },
      {
        "year": 2018,
        "expenditure_usd": 4750219031.04009,
        "pct_gdp": 3.63516607992805
      },
      {
        "year": 2019,
        "expenditure_usd": 6262432160.71221,
        "pct_gdp": 4.06793765037597
      },
      {
        "year": 2020,
        "expenditure_usd": 6838766421.17752,
        "pct_gdp": 4.40031470276707
      },
      {
        "year": 2021,
        "expenditure_usd": 6898123104.35939,
        "pct_gdp": 3.42549199562857
      },
      {
        "year": 2022,
        "expenditure_usd": 41183927472.8119,
        "pct_gdp": 25.6424104715416
      },
      {
        "year": 2023,
        "expenditure_usd": 64908025327.0477,
        "pct_gdp": 36.5281725077224
      },
      {
        "year": 2024,
        "expenditure_usd": 64704990025.4782,
        "pct_gdp": 34.4815297701892
      }
    ]
  },
  "nato": {
    "credit_line": "Source: NATO, Defence Expenditure of NATO Countries (2014-2025).",
    "source_url": "https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/articles/news/2025/08/28/defence-expenditure-of-nato-countries-2014-2025",
    "cutoff_date": "2025-06-03",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-08-03",
    "allies_2025e_pct_gdp": [
      {
        "country": "Albania",
        "pct_gdp": 2.01
      },
      {
        "country": "Belgium",
        "pct_gdp": 2.0
      },
      {
        "country": "Bulgaria",
        "pct_gdp": 2.06
      },
      {
        "country": "Canada",
        "pct_gdp": 2.01
      },
      {
        "country": "Croatia",
        "pct_gdp": 2.03
      },
      {
        "country": "Czechia",
        "pct_gdp": 2.0
      },
      {
        "country": "Denmark",
        "pct_gdp": 3.22
      },
      {
        "country": "Estonia",
        "pct_gdp": 3.38
      },
      {
        "country": "Finland",
        "pct_gdp": 2.77
      },
      {
        "country": "France",
        "pct_gdp": 2.05
      },
      {
        "country": "Germany",
        "pct_gdp": null
      },
      {
        "country": "Greece",
        "pct_gdp": 2.85
      },
      {
        "country": "Hungary",
        "pct_gdp": 2.06
      },
      {
        "country": "Italy",
        "pct_gdp": 2.01
      },
      {
        "country": "Latvia",
        "pct_gdp": 3.73
      },
      {
        "country": "Lithuania",
        "pct_gdp": 4.0
      },
      {
        "country": "Luxembourg",
        "pct_gdp": 2.0
      },
      {
        "country": "Montenegro",
        "pct_gdp": 2.03
      },
      {
        "country": "Netherlands",
        "pct_gdp": 2.49
      },
      {
        "country": "North Macedonia",
        "pct_gdp": 2.0
      },
      {
        "country": "Norway",
        "pct_gdp": 3.35
      },
      {
        "country": "Poland",
        "pct_gdp": 4.48
      },
      {
        "country": "Portugal",
        "pct_gdp": 2.0
      },
      {
        "country": "Romania",
        "pct_gdp": 2.28
      },
      {
        "country": "Slovak Republic",
        "pct_gdp": 2.04
      },
      {
        "country": "Slovenia",
        "pct_gdp": 2.02
      },
      {
        "country": "Spain",
        "pct_gdp": 2.0
      },
      {
        "country": "Sweden",
        "pct_gdp": 2.51
      },
      {
        "country": "Turkiye",
        "pct_gdp": 2.33
      },
      {
        "country": "United Kingdom",
        "pct_gdp": 2.4
      },
      {
        "country": "United States",
        "pct_gdp": 3.22
      }
    ]
  }
}