Military share of state spending in Ireland

• The highest was 2.8% of government spending in 1991, the lowest 0.9% of government spending in 2010.

• 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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