COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Papua New Guinea Military Spending

Papua New Guinea military spending: latest available value for 2024, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

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Series overview

MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS

COUNTRY: Papua New GuineaINDICATOR: MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZSUNIT: percent of GDPSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-28 19:12:40REVISIONS: 28ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

0,31Latest / 2024

-0,03Change from previous

0,36Series average

160Global rank / 164

Papua New Guinea / Military Spending Unit: Percent of GDP (%)

Selected year: 20240,31%

201620242024

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Year	Value	Change
2024	0,31	-0,03
2023	0,34	-0,08
2022	0,42	0,09
2021	0,33	-0,06
2020	0,39	0,03
2019	0,36	0,03
2018	0,33	-0,02
2017	0,36	-0,03
2016	0,38	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product

Source organization: SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), uri: https://www.sipri.org/databases

Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 05:39:08. Open original metadata response.

Revision history

28 detected changes

Source revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.

Detected	Data year	Previous value	Replacement value	Source	Source update
2026-09-28 17:12:40	2019	0,36	0,36	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 17:12:40	2020	0,39	0,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 17:12:40	2021	0,33	0,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 17:12:40	2022	0,42	0,42	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 17:12:40	2023	0,34	0,34	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 17:12:40	2024	0,31	0,31	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-27 02:07:07	2024	0,31	0,31	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:58:36	2019	0,36	0,36	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:58:36	2020	0,39	0,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:58:36	2021	0,33	0,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:58:36	2022	0,42	0,42	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:58:36	2023	0,34	0,34	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:58:36	2024	0,31	0,31	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 23:09:09	2019	0,36	0,36	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 23:09:09	2020	0,39	0,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 23:09:09	2021	0,33	0,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 23:09:09	2022	0,42	0,42	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 23:09:09	2023	0,34	0,34	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 23:09:09	2024	0,31	0,31	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2016	0,38	0,38	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2017	0,36	0,36	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2018	0,33	0,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2019	0,36	0,36	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2020	0,39	0,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2021	0,33	0,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2022	0,42	0,42	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2023	0,34	0,34	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:42:59	2024	0,31	0,31	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Papua New Guinea recorded 0,31 percent of GDP in 2024, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2023, the military spending decreased by 0,03.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.

Across 9 observations from 2016 to 2024, the average was 0,36; the minimum was 0,31 in 2024 and the maximum was 0,42 in 2022.

Papua New Guinea ranks 160 out of 164 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is below the available average for East Asia & Pacific.

It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.

Defense burden and spending priorities.

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