Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Serbia

Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Serbia: Military spending

Military spending in 2025: 0.73% of GDP in Bosnia & Herzegovina and 2.76% of GDP in Serbia, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Serbia, by 2.03 percentage points, or 3.78 times that in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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% of GDP · SIPRI

Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Serbia: Military spendingMilitary spending in 2025: 0.73% of GDP in Bosnia & Herzegovina and 2.76% of GDP in Serbia, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Serbia, by 2.03 percentage points, or 3.78 times that in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Bosnia & HerzegovinaSerbiaSIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • Serbia has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2006.
  • In 2025, Bosnia & Herzegovina ranked 130 and Serbia ranked 32 of 151 countries, counting from the highest.

Every year

% of GDP · SIPRI

YearBosnia & HerzegovinaSerbia
20250.732.76
20240.762.67
20230.792.21
20220.752.17
20210.892.73
20200.832.3
20190.812.18
20180.842.02
20170.851.75
20160.921.86
20150.991.7
20141.031.87
20131.091.85
20121.151.92
20111.141.93
20101.282
20091.382.08
20081.222.05
20071.242.16
20061.392.12
20051.54–
20041.89–
20032.42–
20023.9–
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Good to know

  • What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, as a share of its economy, by SIPRI’s count.
  • Source: Information from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Military Expenditure Database, https://doi.org/10.55163/CQGC9685.
  • Marked points are SIPRI’s own: a dot where it gives the figure as its estimate, a ring where it calls the figure highly uncertain.
  • Ranks count the 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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