What we count
Government spending on armed forces, defence ministries and other military activities under the SIPRI definition.
Military spending today
How much the world spends on militaries in one day, based on SIPRI's global military expenditure total for 2025.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
$ 108,161,506,849official development assistance this year
$ 992,876,712,329foreign direct investment this year
$ 499,015,009,935personal remittances received this year
What lies behind this number
Government spending on armed forces, defence ministries and other military activities under the SIPRI definition.
How the source derives it
SIPRI builds the global total from open budgets, official documents and standardised research.
What one number cannot show
Figures can be revised and remain estimates for some countries where transparency is limited.
Source value
The calculation uses the daily value published by SIPRI Military Expenditure Database 2025 for 2025. It is the latest value published by this source.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time elapsed since midnight.
Daily value7,909,589,041USD
- Period
- 2025
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- SIPRI Military Expenditure Database 2025
How the number is calculated
We distribute the latest published daily reference value evenly across today's elapsed time.
Formula used
V(t) = Vday × elapsed share of the dayDaily reference value7,909,589,0412025 · USD
Average per hour329,566,210even daily distribution
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database 2025 reports the latest published value used by the calculation for 2025.
Elapsed share
We calculate the share corresponding to time elapsed since midnight. The counter restarts at midnight in the visitor's device time zone.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from SIPRI Military Expenditure Database 2025 and refers to 2025. We use it because it is the latest value published by this source. SIPRI builds the global total from open budgets, official documents and standardised research.
Latest published and verified source value
- Publisher
- SIPRI Military Expenditure Database 2025
- Data period
- 2025
- Verified
- 12 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation