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Afghanistan vs Nepal: Military spending

Afghanistan
571.73 million constant 2022 US$
in 2021
Nepal
530.13 million constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Afghanistan rank
106th
Nepal rank
109th

Military spending over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Nepal
0500.0M1.0B1.5B2.0B191919712023

How they compare

Afghanistan currently reports 571.73 million constant 2022 US$ against 530.13 million constant 2022 US$ in Nepal, a difference of 41.59 million constant 2022 US$.

That makes Afghanistan's figure about 1.1 times Nepal's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 102 shared years of data; in 1920 it was Afghanistan ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 106th and Nepal ranks 109th of 172 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Military spending
Unit
constant 2022 US$
Source
Barnum et al. - Global Military Spending Dataset (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
172 places, 15,402 data points, 1816–2023
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This data is expressed in US dollars. It is adjusted for inflation but does not account for differences in the cost of living between countries.