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Botswana vs Democratic Republic of Congo: Military spending

Botswana
639.15 million constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Democratic Republic of Congo
640.30 million constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Botswana rank
101st
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
100th

Military spending over time

  • Botswana
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
0200.0M400.0M600.0M196019912023

How they compare

Democratic Republic of Congo currently reports 640.30 million constant 2022 US$ against 639.15 million constant 2022 US$ in Botswana, a difference of 1.15 million constant 2022 US$.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1966 it was Democratic Republic of Congo ahead.

Botswana ranks 101st and Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 100th 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
Last refreshed

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.