Military Spending / India
India Military Spending
India military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 2.27%.
COUNTRY: India
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:12
GM ECONOMY RATING
India · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
73 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
9.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
19.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
15.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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India · military spending data as percent of GDP.
Latest
2.27%
Previous
2.36%
Range avg.
2.48%
Rank
41
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CountryIndia
IndicatorMilitary Spending
2.27%2024 · Rank 41
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
India recorded 2.27% for Military Spending in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 0.09 percentage points, from 2.36% to 2.27%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (2.48%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 2.27% in 2024 and the high was 2.80% in 2020.
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