Military share of state spending in China

• The highest was 16.9% of government spending in 1992, the lowest 4.9% of government spending in 2022.

• 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.
• Ranks count the 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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