Military expenditure as % of GDP by nation, 2024.
Military expenditure is ranked as a share of GDP across nations for 2024. The chart uses ten rows and % of GDP values from the World Bank/SIPRI indicator. Ukraine ranked first at 34.5% of GDP, 25.7 percentage points above Israel. The leader was 7.12 times Kuwait’s tenth-ranked value, making the top row an extreme outlier.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukraine | 34.5% | 2024 |
| 2 | Israel | 8.8% | 2024 |
| 3 | Algeria | 8.0% | 2024 |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia | 7.3% | 2024 |
| 5 | Russia | 7.1% | 2024 |
| 6 | Myanmar | 6.8% | 2024 |
| 7 | Oman | 5.6% | 2024 |
| 8 | Armenia | 5.5% | 2024 |
| 9 | Azerbaijan | 5.0% | 2024 |
| 10 | Kuwait | 4.8% | 2024 |
Source 1: World Bank World Development Indicators
Publisher: World Bank Data360 / World Development Indicators
Dataset/table: World Development Indicators
Date checked: 2026-05-24
Evidence: Provides 2024 military expenditure shares of GDP by country/economy.
Military expenditure is expressed relative to GDP and should not be presented as a total-spending leaderboard. SIPRI values can be revised as national reporting changes.
Rows were filtered to country entries and ranked within the 2024 World Bank/WDI military expenditure share indicator slice.
All rows use the same World Bank/WDI military expenditure indicator, same 2024 period and same % of GDP unit.
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