Afghanistan Military Spending
Afghanistan military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 1.83%.
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Afghanistan · military spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Afghanistan recorded 1.83% for Military Spending in 2021, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2020, the indicator increased by 0.47 percentage points, from 1.36% to 1.83%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (1.18%).
Across the five latest available observations (2017–2021), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.95% in 2017 and the high was 1.83% in 2021.