Defense spending

Extracted Attributes

• Primary Allocator

  Department of Defense (DoD)

• Expenditure Coverage

  Personnel costs, equipment maintenance, operational funding, development and procurement of new military assets, salaries and benefits, military construction, research and development, central administration, command and support

• US Military Branches Funded

  Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force

• Top 5 Military Spenders 2024

  United States, China, Russia, Germany, India

• US Military Expenditure 2024

  $997 billion

• US Share of NATO Spending 2024

  66%

• Global Military Expenditure 2024

  $2718 billion

• DoD Share of US Military Spending 2024

  89%

• Global Military Burden 2024 (GDP share)

  2.5%

• US Share of Global Military Spending 2024

  37%

• US Military Expenditure Increase (2023-2024)

  5.7%

• Global Military Expenditure Increase (2015-2024)

  37%

• Global Military Expenditure Increase (2023-2024)

  9.4% in real terms

• Combined Spending of Top 5 Military Spenders 2024

  $1635 billion

Timeline

• Global military expenditure increased by 37%. (Source: SIPRI PDF)

  2015-2024

• World military expenditure reached $2718 billion, an increase of 9.4% in real terms from 2023, marking the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the Cold War. US military expenditure rose by 5.7% to $997 billion. (Source: SIPRI Web Search)

  2024-04-28

• The Department of Defense (DoD) accounted for 89% of US military spending. (Source: SIPRI PDF)

  2024

• The proposed budget for the Department of Defense (DoD) totals $850 billion. (Source: CBO Web Search)

  2025

• The DoD's budget is projected to climb to $866 billion (in 2025 dollars). (Source: CBO Web Search)

  2029

• The cost of DoD's plans is projected to reach $965 billion (in 2025 dollars). (Source: CBO Web Search)

  2039

Military budget of the United States

The military budget of the United States is the largest portion of the discretionary federal budget allocated to the Department of Defense (DoD), or more broadly, the portion of the budget that goes to any military-related expenditures. The military budget pays the salaries, training, and health care of uniformed and civilian personnel, maintains arms, equipment and facilities, funds operations, and develops and buys new items. The budget funds six branches of the US military: the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Space Force.

Web Search Results

• Unprecedented rise in global military expenditure as European and ...

  (Stockholm, 28 April 2025) World military expenditure reached $2718 billion in 2024, an increase of 9.4 per cent in real terms from 2023 and the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the cold war. Military spending increased in all world regions, with particularly rapid growth in both Europe and the Middle East. The top five military spenders—the United States, China, Russia, Germany and India—accounted for 60 per cent of the global total, with combined spending of $1635 billion, [...] Military spending by the USA rose by 5.7 per cent to reach $997 billion, which was 66 per cent of total NATO spending and 37 per cent of world military spending in 2024. A significant portion of the US budget for 2024 was dedicated to modernizing military capabilities and the US nuclear arsenal in order to maintain a strategic advantage over Russia and China. European NATO members spent $454 billion in total, representing 30 per cent of total spending across the alliance. [...] All percentage changes are expressed in real terms (constant 2023 prices). Military expenditure refers to all government spending on current military forces and activities, including salaries and benefits, operational expenses, arms and equipment purchases, military construction, research and development, and central administration, command and support. SIPRI therefore discourages the use of terms such as ‘arms spending’ when referring to military expenditure, as spending on armaments is

• [PDF] Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2024 - SIPRI

  In 2024 the Department of Defense (DOD) accounted for 89 per cent of US military spending. Around 7.0 per cent of total US spending was supplemental spending beyond the DOD’s initial budget. The military-related budget lines of the Department of Energy, the Department of State and the National Intelligence Program accounted for the remaining 11 per cent of US spending. The USA’s spending priorities for 2024 aligned with the 2022 US National Defense Strategy (NDS), which seeks to strengthen [...] World military expenditure rose to $2718 billion in 2024, meaning that spending has increased every year for a full decade, going up by 37 per cent between 2015 and 2024 (see figure 1). The 9.4 per cent increase in 2024 was the steepest year-on-year rise since at least 1988. The global military burden— the share of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) devoted to military expenditure—increased to 2.5 per cent in 2024. Average military expenditure as a share of government expenditure rose to [...] At $997 billion in 2024, US military expenditure was 5.7 per cent higher than in 2023 and 19 per cent higher than in 2015. The USA remained by far the largest spender in the world, allocating 3.2 times more than the second largest spender, China. The USA accounted for 37 per cent of global military expenditure in 2024 and 66 per cent of spending by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members (see box 1).

• USAspending.gov

  | Sub-Agency Name | Award Obligations | Number of Transactions | Number of New Awards | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | | Department of the Navy | $71,838,968,047 | 101,590 | 31,869 | | Department of the Air Force | $47,297,260,193 | 52,540 | 12,388 | | Department of the Army | $41,973,852,785 | 68,384 | 18,059 | | Defense Logistics Agency | $25,060,570,102 | 2,046,349 | 1,958,722 | | Defense Health Agency | $10,365,727,513 | 7,735 | 1,524 | [...] | Missile Defense Agency | $4,265,428,750 | 1,869 | 127 | | Defense Information Systems Agency | $3,396,353,933 | 28,803 | 2,794 | | USTRANSCOM | $2,749,314,110 | 2,837 | 1,645 | | U.S. Special Operations Command | $1,986,602,981 | 2,698 | 753 | | Washington Headquarters Services | $1,437,801,937 | 1,759 | 250 | [...] Department of Defense (DOD) $980.88B committed of $2.26T Total Budgetary Resources Department of Defense (DOD) by Sub-Component for FY 2025 View Outlays - [x] What is this? FY25 Obligations FY25 Total Budgetary Resources

• Military spending - Our World in Data

  - [x] United States $968.38B - [x] China $317.56B - [x] Russia $150.53B - [x] Germany $86.3B - [x] India $83.62B - [x] Saudi Arabia $78.95B - [x] United Kingdom $77.39B - [x] Ukraine $66.78B - [x] France $63.13B - [x] Japan $58.4B - [x] South Korea $48.47B - [x] Israel $45.27B - [x] Italy $37.44B - [x] Poland $34.49B - [x] Australia $33.01B - [x] Canada $29.07B [...] - [x] Malaysia $4.22B - [x] Bangladesh $3.93B - [x] Argentina $3.91B - [x] Azerbaijan $3.7B - [x] New Zealand $2.96B - [x] Slovakia $2.77B - [x] South Africa $2.69B - [x] Egypt $2.66B - [x] Ecuador $2.65B - [x] Lithuania $2.6B - [x] Peru $2.51B - [x] Jordan $2.51B - [x] Bulgaria $2.27B - [x] Serbia $2.22B - [x] Nigeria $1.99B - [x] Belarus $1.73B [...] - [x] Burkina Faso $1B - [x] Sudan $976.88M - [x] Tanzania $966.21M - [x] Democratic Republic of Congo $934.64M - [x] Slovenia $931.91M - [x] South Sudan $919.06M - [x] Angola $914.14M - [x] Mali $906.37M - [x] Luxembourg $849.41M - [x] Cambodia $709.26M - [x] Cote d'Ivoire $634.08M - [x] Georgia $632.35M - [x] Bolivia $628.67M - [x] Cyprus $584.73M - [x] Honduras $560.09M

• Long-Term Implications of the 2025 Future Years Defense Program

  The proposed budget for DoD in 2025 totals $850 billion. Adjusted for inflation, that amount is 1.1 percent less than the amount anticipated for 2025 in the previous FYDP and 1.7 percent less than the amount appropriated by the Congress for 2024 (excluding supplemental funding). [...] According to the 2025 FYDP, DoD’s budget would climb to $866 billion (when adjusted for inflation) by 2029, a total increase of 1.9 percent from 2025. Cumulative costs from 2025 to 2028 would be about $13 billion less than was anticipated in DoD’s previous FYDP (which covered 2024 to 2028). The relative shares of funding for operation and support, acquisition, and infrastructure would change little over the period covered by the 2025 FYDP. [...] CBO projects that the cost of DoD’s plans would increase by 11 percent over the 10 years following the FYDP period, reaching $965 billion (in 2025 dollars) in 2039. Sixty-four percent of that increase would occur in operation and support, 32 percent in acquisition, and 4 percent in infrastructure.