Data issued by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showed the size of Arab military spending during the past year, which witnessed several surprises, and the data touched on some countries of the world in this regard.
According to the institute’s report, Algeria topped the list of Arab countries in terms of military spending relative to gross domestic product, while Egypt came at the bottom of the list, and Gulf countries occupied first places after Algeria.
The report indicated that Algeria’s spending in 2025 amounted to 8.83 percent of its gross domestic product, while Saudi Arabia came second with a rate of 6.48 percent, then the Sultanate of Oman with a rate of 5.68 percent, and Kuwait came in fourth place with a rate of 4.69 percent.
Jordan came fifth with 4.56 percent, then Morocco with 3.54 percent, followed by Bahrain with 3.11 percent. In Mauritania, military spending reached 2.75 percent, Lebanon came next with 2.51 percent, then Tunisia with 2.49 percent, and Iraq with 2.45 percent.
Egypt came at the bottom of the list, recording the lowest percentage at 0.61 percent of GDP in 2025.
At the global level, the report indicated that military spending recorded an increase of 2.9 percent in 2025 compared to 2024, and reached $2,887 billion.
Ukraine topped the list of countries in terms of military spending as a percentage of gross domestic product, recording 40 percent of its domestic product and 63 percent of its government spending.
Military spending decreased in the United States, according to the report’s data, while it rose by 14 percent in Europe and by 8.1 percent in Asia and Oceania.
