South Africa Military Spending
South Africa military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 0.74%.
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South Africa · military spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded 0.74% for Military Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.02 percentage points, from 0.76% to 0.74%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (0.86%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.74% in 2025 and the high was 0.97% in 2016.