Top eight countries by military expenditure, current US$ billions; shares use world total.
Military expenditure in 2025 is compared across the eight largest SIPRI country rows using current US$ values and a world-total denominator. The data combine ranked spending values with each row’s share of the US$2.887 trillion global total. The United States ranked first at US$954.4 billion, equal to 33.1% of world military spending. The top two spenders accounted for 44.7% of the global total, while the top eight accounted for 67.3%.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | US$954.4B | 2025 |
| 2 | China | US$335.5B | 2025 |
| 3 | Russia | US$190.4B | 2025 |
| 4 | Germany | US$113.6B | 2025 |
| 5 | India | US$92.1B | 2025 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | US$89.0B | 2025 |
| 7 | Ukraine | US$84.1B | 2025 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | US$83.2B | 2025 |
Source 1: SIPRI Military Expenditure Database
Publisher: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Dataset/table: Military Expenditure Database
Units: Current US$ millions; constant 2024 US$ millions; percent of GDP; current US$ per person
Date checked: 2026-05-26
Evidence: Supports comparable 2025 military expenditure, GDP-share and per-capita values by country, plus 2015 and 2025 real-spending endpoints.
Source 2: SIPRI Military Expenditure Database
Publisher: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Dataset/table: Military Expenditure Database
Units: Current US$ billions; real growth; percent of GDP; per-capita current US$
Date checked: 2026-05-26
Evidence: Supports the 2025 world total, top-spender concentration, global burden, regional totals and SIPRI definition notes.
SIPRI defines military expenditure broadly as spending by governments on military forces and related activities. SIPRI marks some 2025 country values as estimates or uncertain in the workbook, so official_final_only is false.
Rows are sorted descending by SIPRI 2025 military expenditure in current US$ millions. Shares divide each row by the SIPRI 2025 world current-price total.
All rows, values and world-total shares use the same SIPRI 2025 release and current-US$ unit.
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