Note
SIPRI estimate of U.S. military expenditure in 2025: US$954 billion, which SIPRI reported as a 7.5% real-terms fall from 2024 — still the world's largest. An annual figure, 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-us-2025/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.
Relationships & machine-readable
Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-defense-us-2025/data.json · source page: SIPRI — Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025 · per-record provenance.
How to cite
Country military expenditure: 954 USD billion (United States military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI)), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-defense-us-2025. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.
Machine-readable: data.json · source registry · full page.