Moldova vs Romania: Military spending

Military spending in 2025: 0.56% of GDP in Moldova and 2.28% of GDP in Romania, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Romania, by 1.72 percentage points, or 4.07 times that in Moldova.

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% of GDP · SIPRI

MoldovaRomaniaSIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

Romania has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1993.
In 2025, Moldova ranked 138 and Romania ranked 45 of 151 countries, counting from the highest.

Every year

% of GDP · SIPRI

Year	Moldova	Romania
2025	0.56	2.28
2024	0.6	2.17
2023	0.55	1.62
2022	0.37	1.76
2021	0.37	1.86
2020	0.38	2.02
2019	0.34	1.84
2018	0.33	1.8
2017	0.32	1.73
2016	0.34	1.43
2015	0.3	1.45
2014	0.29	1.35
2013	0.28	1.29
2012	0.27	1.17
2011	0.27	1.24
2010	0.26	1.23
2009	0.46	1.28
2008	0.61	1.4
2007	0.52	1.49
2006	0.48	1.85
2005	0.4	2.01
2004	0.36	2.01
2003	0.42	2.09
2002	0.42	2.29
2001	0.4	2.42
2000	0.4	2.5
1999	0.51	2.64
1998	0.62	3
1997	0.9	3.02
1996	0.91	2.37
1995	0.93	2.61
1994	0.77	3.12
1993	0.53	2.74
1992	–	4.25
1991	–	4.77
1990	–	4.55
1989	–	4.8
1988	–	4.21
1987	–	3.91
1986	–	4.45
1985	–	4.3
1984	–	1.91
1983	–	1.99
1982	–	2.04
1981	–	2.2
1980	–	2.21

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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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