Military expenditure (current US$)
Military expenditure in current U.S. dollars for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute): current military spending converted to U.S. dollars at the market exchange rate for the given year. The SIPRI definition includes military and civil personnel, operations and maintenance, procurement, military research and development, and military aid (in donor countries' military expenditure). Nominal (current prices): no adjustment for price changes over time, so cross-year comparisons conflate real spending changes with inflation. Pairs with the military-expenditure share of GDP dataset. Values are null where national statistics are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: current US$.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 24, 2026
- Theme
- government
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: current US$) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | 8,299,385,230.724 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | 8,375,571,424.882 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | 8,495,399,281.217 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | 9,958,245,601.513 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | 11,336,489,831.056 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | 12,988,132,963.623 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | 14,809,892,802.99 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | 17,417,139,931.105 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | 19,342,058,404.558 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | 18,936,226,051.964 |
Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T042853Z-012fec1f9f3a
Measured- Completeness
- 99%
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 1
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 7 | — |
|
| country_namevarchar | 0% | 9 | — |
|
| yearbigint | 0% | 27 | 2,000 → 2,025median 2,013 | |
| valuedouble | 3.8% | 185 | 8,299,385,231 → 997,309,000,000median 51,104,790,016 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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208 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/military_expenditure_current_usd" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/military_expenditure_current_usd").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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World Bank. (2026). Military expenditure (current US$) [Data set, snapshot 20260924T042853Z-012fec1f9f3a, sha256 012fec1f9f3a]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/military_expenditure_current_usd?snapshot=20260924T042853Z-012fec1f9f3a
@misc{dz_world_bank_military_expenditure_current__012fec1f,
title = {{Military expenditure (current US\$)}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/military_expenditure_current_usd?snapshot=20260924T042853Z-012fec1f9f3a}},
note = {Snapshot 20260924T042853Z-012fec1f9f3a, sha256 012fec1f9f3a0f46afbe6e7be14e95a7b07987744ce2ce433ef31792f90ec758; accessed 2026-09-24}
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