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Sources: SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, Apr. 2026; and Liang, X., Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D., et al., ‘Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025’, SIPRI Fact Sheet, Apr. 2026.
The SIPRI Military Expenditure Database contains consistent time series on the military spending of countries for the period 1949–2025. The database is updated annually, which may include updates to data for any of the years included in the database.
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