Military expenditures as a share of government expenditure reached 8.32% in 2021 in the USA, according to the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database. This is 1.47% more than in the previous year.
Historically, military expenditures as a share of government expenditure in the USA reached an all time high of 34.1% in 1972 and an all time low of 8.20% in 2020.
USA has been ranked 38th within the group of 147 countries we follow in terms of military expenditures as a share of government expenditure.
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