Countries by Military Spending 2024
Key Findings
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United States leads in Military Spending 2024 (US$ Billion) with 997.
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Average Military Spending 2024 (US$ Billion): 198 · median: 83.95.
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Gap: United States is 18× larger than Japan.
About This Dataset
Countries by Military Spending 2024
The world's largest military spenders in 2024, in US dollars, according to SIPRI. Global military expenditure reached a record $2,718 billion in 2024, the steepest year-on-year rise since the end of the Cold War.
Analysis
The top three in Military Spending 2024 (US$ Billion) are United States (997), China (314) and Russia (149). United States alone accounts for more than the other 9 entities combined: 997 against 984.4 Military Spending 2024 (US$ Billion). Only 1 of the 10 reaches even half the leader's figure (498.5 or more).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Military Spending 2024 (US$ Billion)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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