New Zealand Military Spending
New Zealand military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 1.19%.
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Interpretation
New Zealand recorded 1.19% for Military Spending in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 0.03 percentage points, from 1.22% to 1.19%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (1.16%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.99% in 2015 and the high was 1.34% in 2020.