United Arab Emirates Military Spending
United Arab Emirates military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 5.64%.
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United Arab Emirates · military spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
United Arab Emirates recorded 5.64% for Military Spending in 2014, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2013, the indicator decreased by 0.39 percentage points, from 6.03% to 5.64%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (4.75%).
Across the five latest available observations (2010–2014), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 3.23% in 2006 and the high was 6.04% in 2010.