Myanmar (Burma) vs United Arab Emirates: Military share of state spending

Military share of state spending: 32% of government spending in Myanmar (Burma) in 2024 and 17% of government spending in United Arab Emirates in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by 1.1 percentage points, or 1.07 times that in Myanmar (Burma).

Watch it change on the map

% of government spending · SIPRI

Myanmar (Burma)United Arab EmiratesSIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

United Arab Emirates has been higher since 2013, when it overtook Myanmar (Burma).

Every year

% of government spending · SIPRI

Year	Myanmar (Burma)	United Arab Emirates
2024	32	–
2023	17.4	–
2022	17.9	–
2021	21.1	–
2020	13.8	–
2019	10.8	–
2018	11.2	–
2017	17.5	–
2016	17.5	–
2015	17.8	–
2014	15.9	17
2013	17.9	19.9
2012	21.5	17.4
2011	–	17.6
2010	–	18.7
2009	–	15.6
2008	–	16.7
2007	–	18.6
2006	–	20.6
2005	11.9	23.2
2004	13.7	26
2003	15	23.4
2002	10.1	22.9
2001	10.6	22.3
2000	11.2	26.2
1999	9.8	20.7
1998	10.5	20.6
1997	–	19.2

Estimate
Highly uncertain

Each country on its own

Good to know

The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, 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.

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