Military Spending / Nigeria
Nigeria Military Spending
Nigeria military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 0.91%.
COUNTRY: Nigeria
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-10-18 17:00:07
GM ECONOMY RATING
Nigeria · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
72 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
14.1 / 20
External stability
13.0 / 15
Financial robustness
10.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
n/a
Demographic capacity
3.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 67% of weighted inputs available.
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Nigeria · military spending data as percent of GDP.
Latest
0.91%
Previous
0.56%
Range avg.
0.64%
Rank
81
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CountryNigeria
IndicatorMilitary Spending
0.91%2025 · Rank 81
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Nigeria recorded 0.91% for Military Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.35 percentage points, from 0.56% to 0.91%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (0.64%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.43% in 2017 and the high was 1.01% in 2021.
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