SIPRI Military Expenditure Database

This database, provided freely online by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), is a simple but effective tool for those interested in the annual military expenditure of individual countries. Although this is one of the smaller databases in the SIPRI suite, it is a significant piece of the arms, arms control and disarmament research conducted by the institute.

Coverage includes data from 172 countries from 1988 to 2009. The most recent update occurred June 3, 2010. Figures are calculated three ways: in local country currency at current prices; US currency in constant (2008) prices and exchange rates; and as...