Military expenditures globally 2024 by region

Published by S. Galan, Nov 28, 2025

In 2024, the military spending of North America amounted to over one trillion U.S. dollars. In both East Asia and Central and Western Europe, this figure was over 400 billion U.S. dollars in the same year.

Military spending worldwide in 2024, by region (in billion U.S. dollars)

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April 2025

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Worldwide

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2024

Supplementary notes

* Excluding North Korea.

** Excluding Laos.

*** Excluding Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia.

**** Excluding Cuba.

***** Excluding Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Figures for the Middle East are uncertain estimates.

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