Variable: Expenditure on defense (% of total gen. gov. exp.)
QoG Code: (gfs_def)
Description:
Total expenditure on defense, as the percentage of general government expenditure.
Type of variable: Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on: 2025-11-05
Last updated by source: 2025-11-05
Categories:
Conflict
Public Economy
Find this variable in:
Standard Cross-section - 2026
Standard Time-series - 2026
Original Dataset
Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
| Dataset |
No. Countries |
| Standard cross-section: |
69 |
| Standard time-series: |
80 |
This variable has information for these countries:
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- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- China
- Croatia
- Cyprus (1975-)
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Finland
- France (1963-)
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea, South
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Maldives
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Yemen
This variable has information from the year 1972 to the
year 2023