SIPRI — Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025

Source profile

• Type: Research institute / academic
• Access / format: PDF / spreadsheet (manual read) — Latest figures are stated in the press release; the full series is in the fact-sheet PDF / downloadable database.
• Machine-readable: No — manual read
• Update cadence: annual
• Used for: defense spending, military expenditure, global, annual

Original source first: for the authoritative value, go to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ↗; cite Warconomy for the structured, dated overview. See how to cite, source health, and the source hierarchy.

How Warconomy uses this source

Annual fact sheet (published April 2026). Manually maintained static fixture in this repo; an annual estimate, not real-time. Figures may be revised in future SIPRI releases.

Citation readiness

Why

• authoritative research source
• backs a source-linked observation
• deep link to the specific page/series
• manually reviewed

Limitations

• manually maintained static value, not real-time
• research estimate; methodology varies
• annual data may lag

Citation readiness is a derived label from the source’s authority, role, and how directly it backs a maintained value — not a correctness claim.

Indicators from this source

Facts citing this source

• SIPRI reports that world military expenditure rose for the eleventh consecutive year in 2025, continuing a sustained multi-year increase.

  Reported by Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteHigh

• SIPRI reports the top three spenders — the United States, China, and Russia — spent a combined US$1,480 billion in 2025, about 51% of the global total.

  US$1,480 bn (top 3, 2025)Reported by Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteAs of December 31, 2025High

• SIPRI reports the five biggest spenders in 2025 — the United States, China, Russia, Germany, and India — together accounted for 58% of world military spending.

  58% of world total (top 5, 2025)Reported by Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteAs of December 31, 2025High

Where this source is used

• Global defense spending

Review status

Annual source does not need near-term review. This source backs 12 live observations; the oldest has an asOf of December 31, 2025, giving a recommended review-by date of July 1, 2027 for its annual cadence. Review status is a re-check signal, not a correctness claim.

How to refresh: open the cited annualsource, confirm the latest value and date, update the observation’s value, asOf, and lastReviewed, then bump the site review date. See the data review queue for sitewide priorities.

Time series using this source

• World military expenditure

Version history

This source is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions (v1.37.0–v1.187.0), citing 12 observations and 3 facts. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only.

Full record history: records/source--sipri-milex-2025/data.json.

Relationships & machine-readable

This source backs 12 observations, 3 facts, and appears in 16 provenance records. See the source JSON (includes a source relationship graph), the per-record provenance export, and the source health checklist.

Limitations

• Values referencing this source are manually maintained static fixtures, not real-time and not automatically updated.
• Figures may be revised by the publisher in later releases; review cadence depends on the source.
• Warconomy links to the publisher’s canonical page; it does not reproduce the source in full and is not affiliated with it.