Dataset
Military expenditure: the world, Ukraine and NATO
How much the world's biggest military spenders pay, where Ukraine ranks among them, how Ukraine's own military spending has moved over the last decade, and what each NATO ally now spends as a share of its economy -- read from the World Bank's API and NATO's own published report, never from SIPRI directly.
World Bank data for 2024 puts Ukraine at #8 among the world’s largest military spenders by current US dollars, and at 34.5% of its own GDP – the highest share of any country in this top 15. The chart above plots the top 15 by expenditure; the table beneath it carries the same 15 rows plus each one’s share of GDP. A second chart tracks Ukraine’s own military expenditure from 2013 to 2024, in current US dollars. A separate table re-keys NATO’s own published defence-expenditure report: each ally’s 2025 estimate as a share of GDP, credited to NATO and never mirrored from its PDF. None of these figures is read from SIPRI directly – SIPRI’s own terms require a negotiated royalty for commercial use, so this page routes the same underlying series through the World Bank’s CC BY 4.0 distribution instead. The rules that decide what may be published are on the methodology page.
Key figures
- World Bank data year
- 2024
- Ukraine's global rank (top 15)
- #8
- Ukraine military expenditure
- $64,704,990,025 (34.5% of GDP)
- NATO allies reported (2025e)
- 31
- World Bank data retrieved
- NATO report retrieved
Top 15 military spenders, and Ukraine's decade
Top 15 by military expenditure, 2024
Ukraine's military expenditure, 2013-2024
The data
World Bank: top 15 and Ukraine
| Country | Expenditure (USD) | % of GDP |
|---|---|---|
| United States | $997,309,000,000 | 3.4% |
| China | $313,658,330,217 | 1.7% |
| Russian Federation | $148,967,275,140 | 7.1% |
| Germany | $88,458,476,390 | 1.9% |
| India | $86,125,976,249 | 2.3% |
| United Kingdom | $81,763,173,070 | 2.3% |
| Saudi Arabia | $80,330,666,667 | 7.3% |
| Ukraine | $64,704,990,025 | 34.5% |
| France | $64,675,015,306 | 2.1% |
| Japan | $55,273,904,317 | 1.4% |
| Korea, Rep. | $47,571,318,597 | 2.6% |
| Israel | $46,505,298,369 | 8.8% |
| Poland | $38,000,728,652 | 4.2% |
| Italy | $37,964,578,317 | 1.6% |
| Australia | $33,819,572,368 | 1.9% |
World Bank: Ukraine, 2013-2024
| Year | Expenditure (USD) | % of GDP |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $4,386,419,892 | 2.4% |
| 2014 | $3,961,551,379 | 3.0% |
| 2015 | $3,502,733,744 | 3.8% |
| 2016 | $3,423,286,811 | 3.7% |
| 2017 | $3,647,565,196 | 3.2% |
| 2018 | $4,750,219,031 | 3.6% |
| 2019 | $6,262,432,161 | 4.1% |
| 2020 | $6,838,766,421 | 4.4% |
| 2021 | $6,898,123,104 | 3.4% |
| 2022 | $41,183,927,473 | 25.6% |
| 2023 | $64,908,025,327 | 36.5% |
| 2024 | $64,704,990,025 | 34.5% |
NATO: defence expenditure by ally, 2025 estimate
Source: NATO, Defence Expenditure of NATO Countries (2014-2025). Cut-off date for NATO's own figures: 2025-06-03. A blank cell is NATO's own report stating no 2025 estimate, never a zero.
| Ally | % of GDP (2025e) |
|---|---|
| Albania | 2.01% |
| Belgium | 2.00% |
| Bulgaria | 2.06% |
| Canada | 2.01% |
| Croatia | 2.03% |
| Czechia | 2.00% |
| Denmark | 3.22% |
| Estonia | 3.38% |
| Finland | 2.77% |
| France | 2.05% |
| Germany | Not reported |
| Greece | 2.85% |
| Hungary | 2.06% |
| Italy | 2.01% |
| Latvia | 3.73% |
| Lithuania | 4.00% |
| Luxembourg | 2.00% |
| Montenegro | 2.03% |
| Netherlands | 2.49% |
| North Macedonia | 2.00% |
| Norway | 3.35% |
| Poland | 4.48% |
| Portugal | 2.00% |
| Romania | 2.28% |
| Slovak Republic | 2.04% |
| Slovenia | 2.02% |
| Spain | 2.00% |
| Sweden | 2.51% |
| Turkiye | 2.33% |
| United Kingdom | 2.40% |
| United States | 3.22% |
Source and methodology
The two World Bank charts use indicators MS.MIL.XPND.CD (military expenditure, current US$) and MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS (military expenditure, % of GDP), pulled from the World Bank API and cached in this repository with a retrieval date. World Bank distributes both under CC BY 4.0 while citing SIPRI's Military Expenditure Database as the underlying source -- SIPRI's own site is never read directly (its terms require a negotiated royalty for commercial use). The NATO table re-keys the headline percentage from NATO's own published report -- names and one figure per country, never NATO's prose, layout or logo.
Attribution
- World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0), sourced from SIPRI Military Expenditure Database. Retrieved 2026-08-03T00:00:00Z. World Bank API
- Source: NATO, Defence Expenditure of NATO Countries (2014-2025). Retrieved 2026-08-03. https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/articles/news/2025/08/28/defence-expenditure-of-nato-countries-2014-2025
Never used: SIPRI's own database. SIPRI requires prior written permission and a negotiated royalty for commercial republication (docs/research/08-money-data-licensing.md row 7); every figure above traces to the World Bank's CC BY 4.0 distribution or to NATO's own report instead.
The rules that decide what may be published are on the methodology page.
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Top 15 (CSV) Ukraine decade (CSV) NATO allies (CSV) All three (JSON)
Each CSV is one of the tables above, one line per row. An empty field means the source states no value there -- never a zero.
Licence
The World Bank series here are CC BY 4.0 -- free to reuse, including commercially, with the attribution line above. The NATO table is NATO's own conditional terms (see Source and methodology): credit NATO, never sell it or use it in advertising, never mirror NATO's layout, prose or logo.
- Top 15 military spenders (CSV) -- https://miltechinsider.com/data/military-expenditure-nato-and-world-worldbank-top15.csv
- Ukraine, 2013-2024 (CSV) -- https://miltechinsider.com/data/military-expenditure-nato-and-world-ukraine-decade.csv
- NATO allies, 2025e (CSV) -- https://miltechinsider.com/data/military-expenditure-nato-and-world-nato.csv
- All three (JSON) -- https://miltechinsider.com/data/military-expenditure-nato-and-world.json
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