Note
Real-terms year-over-year change reported by SIPRI for 2025; an annual figure, not real-time. Reported alongside many factors and not a causal attribution.
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-yoy/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.
Relationships & machine-readable
Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-defense-yoy/data.json · source page: SIPRI — Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025 · per-record provenance.
How to cite
Global military expenditure — real-terms change: 2.9 % (2025 vs 2024, real terms), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-defense-yoy. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.
Machine-readable: data.json · source registry · full page.