Military Spending / Qatar
Qatar Military Spending
Qatar military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 6.50%.
COUNTRY: Qatar
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:12
GM ECONOMY RATING
Qatar · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
AA
84 / 100
Very strong stability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
13.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
5.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 76% of weighted inputs available.
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Qatar · military spending data as percent of GDP.
Latest
6.50%
Previous
6.45%
Range avg.
2.99%
Rank
7
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CountryQatar
IndicatorMilitary Spending
6.50%2022 · Rank 7
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Qatar recorded 6.50% for Military Spending in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator increased by 0.05 percentage points, from 6.45% to 6.50%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (2.99%).
Across the five latest available observations (2008–2022), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 1.47% in 2010 and the high was 6.50% in 2022.
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