UK Defence Statistics: Annual Compendium from the Ministry of Defence

UK Ministry of Defence's annual statistics compendium, designated as National Statistics. The dataset is published by the UK government and was last updated in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze defence expenditure trends based on the annual statistics compendium
• Model military personnel and equipment statistics based on the compendium data
• Benchmark UK defence metrics against other nations using the official statistics

Strengths

• Designated as National Statistics, indicating official quality standards
• Published by the authoritative source, the UK Ministry of Defence

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Ministry of Defence

Collection Method

Annual statistics compendium

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:22.001691; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom