Top 15 military spenders, 2025

Spending in current 2025 US dollars. Changes in real terms (constant 2024 US$). Square brackets denote a SIPRI estimate.

CountrySpendingShare of world% of GDPvs 2024vs 2016Per capita
1. United States$954bn33%3.1%−7.5%+11%$2,755
2. China[$336bn][12%][1.7%]+7.4%+62%$237
3. Russia[$190bn][6.6%][7.5%]+5.9%+96%$1,318
4. Germany$114bn3.9%2.3%+24%+118%$1,346
5. India$92.1bn3.2%2.3%+8.9%+39%$63
6. United Kingdom$89.0bn3.1%2.4%−2.0%+32%$1,283
7. Ukraine[$84.1bn][2.9%][40%]+20%+1,501%$2,197
8. Saudi Arabia[$83.2bn][2.9%][6.5%]+1.4%+12%$2,428
9. France$68.0bn2.4%2.0%+1.5%+21%$1,021
10. Japan$62.2bn2.2%1.4%+9.7%+61%$504
11. Israel$48.3bn1.7%7.8%−4.9%+120%$5,108
12. Italy$48.1bn1.7%1.9%+20%+57%$813
13. South Korea$47.8bn1.7%2.6%+2.6%+30%$924
14. Poland$46.8bn1.6%4.5%+23%+207%$1,219
15. Spain$40.2bn1.4%2.1%+50%+122%$839
World$2,887bn100%2.5%+2.9%+41%$352

Source: SIPRI Fact Sheet, Trends in World Military Expenditure 2025, published 27 April 2026. The top five account for 58% of world spending; the top fifteen for 80%.

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