Note
SIPRI estimate of China's military expenditure in 2025: about US$336 billion (a 7.4% real-terms rise), the world's second-largest. An estimate, manually maintained from SIPRI's reporting; not real-time.
Version history
This observation is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions, from v1.37.0 to v1.187.0. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only — not fabricated for versions that predate the full-payload store.
Full record history: records/observation--obs-defense-china-2025/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.
Relationships & machine-readable
Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-defense-china-2025/data.json · source page: SIPRI — Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025 · per-record provenance.
How to cite
Country military expenditure: 336 USD billion (China military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate)), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-defense-china-2025. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.
Machine-readable: data.json · source registry · full page.