Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: military spending in dollars, as a percentage of GDP and as a share of the government budget, armed forces personnel, arms exports and imports. SIPRI counts the value of arms transfers in comparability units of its own rather than in contract prices — this is not the revenue of the seller but a measure of the volume of transfers.
The share of GDP a country spends on defense.
1960–2024 Military expenditure in dollarsThe absolute volume of defense spending in current US dollars.
1988–2024 Military expenditure share of the budgetWhat part of government spending goes to defense.
1985–2020 Armed forces personnelThe number of active-duty military personnel and paramilitary forces.
1960–2024 Arms exportsTransfers of major conventional weapons abroad, in SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIV).
1960–2024 Arms importsPurchases of major conventional weapons abroad.
1816–2022 Armed forces personnel since 1816A long historical series on the personnel of armies — since 1816, that is, over two centuries.
1816–2022 Armed forces as a share of the populationWhat share of a country’s population military personnel make up — a measure of how militarized a society is.
1990–2020 Armed forces as a share of the labor forceWhat part of a country’s labor force serves in the army instead of working in the economy.