Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures

Local snapshot (archived 2026-07-03): full-page PDF committed at sources/military/_archive/sipri-top-spenders-2025/sipri-top-spenders-2025.pdf.

Top military spenders — SIPRI 2025 (current USD, market exchange rates)

Figures are 2025, current US$ billions, SIPRI (April 2026 release). Used for the per-capita headline table. All CAD figures downstream use 1 USD = 1.37 CAD. | Country | 2025 milex (US$ bn) | |---|---| | United States | 954.0 | | China | 336.0 | | Russia | 190.0 | | Germany | 114.0 | | India | 92.1 | | United Kingdom | 89.0 | | Ukraine | 84.1 | | Saudi Arabia | 83.2 | | France | 68.0 | | Japan | 62.2 | | Israel | 48.3 | | Italy | 48.1 | | South Korea | 47.8 | | Poland | 46.8 | | Spain | 40.2 | | Canada | 37.5 | | Australia | 35.3 | | Turkey | 30.0 | | Brazil | 23.9 | | Indonesia | 15.0 | | Mexico | 13.6 |

Nigeria not in top-21 here; see nigeria-defence-2025.md ($2.1B in 2025). Note: these are one year newer than the 2024 figures used in the small-nation shock tier. Do not silently mix — this per-capita table is a clean 2025 set.