Countries in North America by military spending

Countries in North America by military spending, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	% of GDP	Region
1	United States	3.4%	Northern America
2	Honduras	1.6%	Central America
3	Canada	1.3%	Northern America
4	Jamaica	1.3%	Caribbean
5	El Salvador	1.2%	Central America
6	Trinidad and Tobago	0.9%	Caribbean
7	Belize	0.9%	Central America
8	Mexico	0.9%	Central America
9	Dominican Republic	0.8%	Caribbean
10	Nicaragua	0.6%	Central America
11	Guatemala	0.4%	Central America
12	Haiti	0.1%	Caribbean

No World Bank figure for 11 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Questions

Which country in North America has the highest military spending?

The United States has the highest military spending in North America: 3.4% of GDP (2024). Next come Honduras (1.6% of GDP) and Canada (1.3% of GDP).

Which country in North America has the lowest military spending?

Haiti, with 0.1% of GDP (2024).

What is the typical military spending of a country in North America?

The median of the 12 countries in North America is 0.9% of GDP: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Military expenditure as a share of GDP, from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: armed forces, defence ministries, military aid and the paramilitary forces trained for military operations. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.