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France vs Japan: Military spending

France
71.97 billion constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Japan
62.31 billion constant 2022 US$
in 2023
France rank
7th
Japan rank
9th

Military spending over time

  • France
  • Japan
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How they compare

France currently reports 71.97 billion constant 2022 US$ against 62.31 billion constant 2022 US$ in Japan, a difference of 9.66 billion constant 2022 US$.

That makes France's figure about 1.2 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 18 times across 157 shared years of data; in 1860 it was France ahead.

France ranks 7th and Japan ranks 9th 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.