Military expenditure as a share of GDP rose 74.9% to 5.44% in Togo in 2022, according to the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database.
Historically, military expenditure as a share of GDP in Togo reached an all time high of 5.44% in 2022 and an all time low of 0.266% in 1961. When compared to Togo's main peers, military expenditure as a share of GDP in Benin amounted to 0.557%, 3.09% in Burkina Faso, 0.350% in Ghana and 0.636% in Nigeria in 2022.
Togo has been ranked 4th within the group of 148 countries we follow in terms of military expenditure as a share of GDP, 58 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
| Military Expenditure (As % of GDP) | Unit | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Benin | % | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.674% | 0.921% | 0.633% | 0.473% | 0.459% | ||||||||||||
| Burkina Faso | % | 1.17% | 1.36% | 1.91% | 2.24% | 2.20% | ||||||||||||||||
| Cameroon | % | 1.15% | 1.14% | 1.08% | 1.06% | 0.964% | ||||||||||||||||
| Chad | % | ... | 3.04% | 2.20% | 2.30% | 2.14% | 3.01% | |||||||||||||||
| Ghana | % | 0.291% | 0.313% | 0.326% | 0.344% | 0.351% | ||||||||||||||||
| Ivory Coast | % | ... | 1.26% | 0.983% | 1.05% | 0.916% | 0.989% | |||||||||||||||
| Mali | % | 2.59% | 3.03% | 2.82% | 2.75% | 3.43% | ||||||||||||||||
| Niger | % | ... | ... | ... | 1.60% | 1.81% | 1.79% | 1.92% | 1.73% | |||||||||||||
| Nigeria | % | 0.433% | 0.431% | 0.507% | 0.459% | 0.632% | ||||||||||||||||
| Togo | % | ... | ... | ... | 1.84% | 1.87% | 1.96% | 3.15% | 2.84% |
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