Military Spending / Ireland
Ireland Military Spending
Ireland military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 0.24%.
COUNTRY: Ireland
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:12
GM ECONOMY RATING
Ireland · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
58 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
17.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
3.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Ireland · military spending data as percent of GDP.
Latest
0.24%
Previous
0.23%
Range avg.
0.27%
Rank
95
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CountryIreland
IndicatorMilitary Spending
0.24%2024 · Rank 95
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Ireland recorded 0.24% for Military Spending in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.01 percentage points, from 0.23% to 0.24%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (0.27%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.21% in 2022 and the high was 0.33% in 2015.
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