Military Spending / Nepal
Nepal Military Spending
Nepal military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 0.97%.
COUNTRY: Nepal
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-10-18 17:00:07
GM ECONOMY RATING
Nepal · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
15.0 / 15
Financial robustness
6.0 / 15
Structural stability
9.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Nepal · military spending data as percent of GDP.
Latest
0.97%
Previous
1.02%
Range avg.
1.23%
Rank
80
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CountryNepal
IndicatorMilitary Spending
0.97%2025 · Rank 80
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Nepal recorded 0.97% for Military Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.06 percentage points, from 1.02% to 0.97%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (1.23%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.97% in 2025 and the high was 1.48% in 2017.
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