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Germany vs Japan: Military spending

Germany
62.28 billion constant 2022 US$
in 2020
Japan
62.31 billion constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Germany rank
10th
Japan rank
9th

Military spending over time

  • Germany
  • Japan
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How they compare

Japan currently reports 62.31 billion constant 2022 US$ against 62.28 billion constant 2022 US$ in Germany, a difference of 31.80 million constant 2022 US$.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 152 shared years of data; in 1860 it was Germany ahead.

Germany ranks 10th 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
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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.