Global military expenditure — 2887 USD billion

Value2887 USD billion

Period2025 (annual)

As ofDecember 31, 2025

Last reviewedJune 5, 2026

Confidencehigh

Data modelive · source-linked

SourceSIPRI — Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025

On pageGlobal defense spending

Citation readinessmedium readiness

Note

Annual estimate from SIPRI's Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025; a source-linked static fixture, not real-time and not a causal attribution. May be revised in future SIPRI releases.

Related time series

World military expenditure

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-global/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.

Relationships & machine-readable

Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-defense-global/data.json · source page: SIPRI — Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025 · per-record provenance.

How to cite

Global military expenditure: 2887 USD billion (2025 (annual)), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-defense-global. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.

Machine-readable: data.json · source registry · full page.