Global Militarisation Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: militarisation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Global Militarisation Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank	BICC’s own rank, exactly as printed.	Number · whole numbers	1Ukraine149Haitimiddle 75	149	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	149	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	149	0
GMI Scoregmi_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: GMI score (higher means a heavier military weight).	Number · up to 13 decimals	3.51Haiti351.09Ukrainemiddle 100.66	149	0
RegionregionGrouping	BICC’s own grouping of the country.	Text	—	13	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 34 years.

Not in this dataset · 62 places this site covers

BICC gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCosta RicaCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIcelandIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomalilandSurinameTaiwanTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)

   gmi.bicc.de

2. 2 · Their file

   Global Militarisation Index 2023

   GMI-2024-all-years.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 11, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   34 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as militarisation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/militarisationA key for Peace & Security in the Country Index.

From BICC’s published Global Militarisation Index tables.

• Charted

  Global Militarisation Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• In the Country Index

  A key for Peace & Security

  “How much of a country's resources sit with its military rather than its hospitals and schools, comparing spending, personnel and heavy weapons against health provision. Correlates 0.02 with political stability: a heavily armed country and an unstable one are genuinely different things, which is why the topic needs both.”

  Peace & Security standings

• Subjects

  • Peace & Security

• Near neighbours

  • Physical Violence IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
  • Political Violence by Non-State ActorsV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
  • Political Stability and Absence of ViolenceWorld Bank Group · 27 held · 1996–2025