Indonesia vs United Arab Emirates: Military spending

Military spending: 1.05% of GDP in Indonesia in 2025 and 5.64% of GDP in United Arab Emirates in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by 4.87 percentage points, or 7.26 times that in Indonesia.

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% of GDP · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

United Arab Emirates has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1997.

Every year

% of GDP · SIPRI

Year	Indonesia	United Arab Emirates
2025	1.05	–
2024	0.86	–
2023	0.82	–
2022	0.77	–
2021	0.74	–
2020	0.89	–
2019	0.73	–
2018	0.72	–
2017	0.87	–
2016	0.79	–
2015	0.88	–
2014	0.78	5.64
2013	0.92	6.04
2012	0.71	5.08
2011	0.65	5.47
2010	0.62	6.04
2009	0.57	5.46
2008	0.58	3.67
2007	0.71	3.28
2006	0.66	3.23
2005	0.75	3.66
2004	0.95	4.61
2003	0.91	4.69
2002	0.7	4.88
2001	0.57	5.61
2000	0.68	8.32
1999	0.81	7.67
1998	1.02	8.63
1997	1.5	6.76
1996	1.26	–
1995	1.23	–
1994	1.27	–
1993	1.22	–
1992	1.36	–
1991	1.32	–
1990	1.41	–
1989	1.39	–
1988	1.53	–
1987	1.72	–
1986	2.01	–
1985	2.17	–
1984	2.29	–
1983	2.4	–
1982	2.9	–
1981	2.89	–
1980	2.92	–
1979	3.02	–
1978	3.16	–
1977	3.21	–
1976	3.42	–
1975	3.49	–
1974	2.71	–

Estimate

Each country on its own

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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Deaths in conflictsIndonesia: 46 deaths in 2022United Arab Emirates: 3 deaths in 2022