Warconomy tracks defense spending from reputable annual sources — SIPRI for global and national totals and the real-terms change, and NATO for the 2%-of-GDP allies count. These are annual, source-linked figures, manually maintained and not real-time, reported as levels and direction only without attributing changes to any single cause.
- 13 source-linked defense indicators (SIPRI/NATO, annual).
- Global total, real-terms change, top spenders, and the NATO 2% count.
- Annual figures, not real-time; not a causal attribution.
Indicators
- Global military expenditure: 2887 USD billion (2025 (annual))
- Global military expenditure — real-terms change: 2.9 % (2025 vs 2024, real terms)
- NATO defense spending (share at/above 2% GDP): 32 allies (2025 (all 32 allies))
- Country military expenditure: 954 USD billion (United States military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI))
- Country military expenditure: 336 USD billion (China military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
- Country military expenditure: 190 USD billion (Russia military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
- Country military expenditure: 114 USD billion (Germany military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
- Country military expenditure: 92.1 USD billion (India military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
- Country military expenditure: 89 USD billion (United Kingdom military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
- Country military expenditure: 84.1 USD billion (Ukraine military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
- Country military expenditure: 83.2 USD billion (Saudi Arabia military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
- Country military expenditure: 68 USD billion (France military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
- Country military expenditure: 62.2 USD billion (Japan military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate))
Explore
- Defense comparison — top spenders compared and the world-total trend.
- Defense dashboard — the full source-linked overview.
- Defense rankings — top spenders by SIPRI 2025 estimate.
- Machine-readable: defense/data.json.
Key terms
- Military expenditure — A government's annual defense spending, as estimated by SIPRI. Warconomy tracks the global total, the real-terms change, top spenders, and the NATO 2%-of-GDP count.
- Benchmark price — A widely-referenced market price (e.g. Brent crude, Henry Hub gas) used to price a broader class of trade. Warconomy tracks benchmarks as context, not as proof of a specific cause.