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Botswana vs Costa Rica: Military spending

Botswana
639.15 million constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Costa Rica
601.28 million constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Botswana rank
101st
Costa Rica rank
103rd

Military spending over time

  • Botswana
  • Costa Rica
0200.0M400.0M600.0M192019712023

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 639.15 million constant 2022 US$ against 601.28 million constant 2022 US$ in Costa Rica, a difference of 37.87 million constant 2022 US$.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.1 times Costa Rica's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1966 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 101st and Costa Rica ranks 103rd 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.