Countries with the Biggest Military Budgets 2021
About This Dataset
Countries with the Biggest Military Budgets 2021United States (806.2), China (285.9) and India (76.3) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 806.2 down to 11.6, a spread of 794.6. Most of that spread sits between first and second alone (520.3 of 794.6), so United States stands apart from the rest of the table. No other country in the table reaches half the leading figure of 806.2. United States stood at 778.4 in 2020, so its figure rose by 27.8 over the year. United States also came first in 2020. Of the 20 in this table that also reported in 2020, 17 recorded a higher figure than the year before and 3 a lower one. The largest single move was China, from 258.0 to 285.9. The chart shows the twenty highest of 155 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Key Findings
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2021 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Military Spending (USD Billion)
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- 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 in 2021.
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