List of countries by military expenditures

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Military spending in 2006, in billions of euros, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the European Defence Agency.

This is a list of countries by military expenditures using the latest information available. Some of the information is from the United States' Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.

Note that for some countries, no information was available to the World Factbook's compilers; these countries were omitted from the list. Consequently, the total world expenditure on armed forces is likely to be much higher than that given.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

1 Chart by country or organization
2 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Figures
3 List of countries by military expenditure as a percentage of GDP
4 See also
5 Notes
6 References

[edit] Chart by country or organization

Military spending

Military spending in 2005

Comparisons between figures in this table should be used with caution. There are comparison issues inherent with these figures: for example France and Italy include in their defence expenditures the costs of maintaining the Gendarmerie and Carabinieri, both of which are mainly used as domestic police forces. On the other hand some countries account military expenses under other budget voices: for example China and Russia categorize spending on nuclear weapons, missile and fighter development as scientific expenses, spending on training are categorized under the education budget, and veteran pensions are afforded by welfare budget.

Rank		Military expenditures (USD)	Date of information
—	World Total	1,200,000,000,000	2007 (projected est.)^[1]
—	NATO Total	849,875,309,000
1	United States	583,283,000,000	2008^[2]
—	European Union Total	311,920,000,000	2007^[3]
2	France	74,690,470,000	2008-2009 ^[4]
3	United Kingdom	68,911,000,000	FY 2008-09^[5]
4	China	59,000,000,000	2008^[6]
5	Germany	45,930,000,000	2008^[7]
6	Japan	41,750,000,000	2007^[8]
7	Russia	40,000,000,000	2008^[9]
8	Italy	32,600,000,000	2008 (est.)^{[citation needed]}
9	Saudi Arabia	31,050,000,000	2008 ^[10]
10	South Korea	28,940,000,000	2008 ^[11]^[12]
11	India	26,500,000,000	2008-2009[2]
12	Brazil	25,396,731,055	2008^[13]
13	Australia	20,727,710,000	2008^[14]
14	Canada	17,150,002,540	2008^[15]
15	Spain	15,792,207,000	2007
16	Turkey	15,166,000,000	2008^{[citation needed]}
17	Netherlands	12,000,000,000	2008^[16]
18	Poland	10,838,000,000	2008^[17]
19	Republic of China	10,500,000,000	2008
20	Israel	9,444,000,000	2007
21	Pakistan	7,800,000,000	2008
22	Greece	7,648,561,000	2007 (est.)^[18]
23	Singapore	7,129,400,000	2007
24	Sweden	6,309,137,714	2007^[19]
25	Iran	6,300,000,000	2005^[20]
26	Mexico	6,070,000,000	2006^[21]^[22]
27	Norway	5,725,000,000	2007
28	North Korea	5,500,000,000	2005^[23]
29	Chile	5,193,000,000	2007^[24]
30	Indonesia	4,740,000,000	2008
31	Argentina	4,300,000,000	NA
32	South Africa	4,067,879,840	2008-2009^[25]
33	Belgium	4,000,000,000	2007^[26]
34	Venezuela	4,000,000,000	2007
35	Portugal	3,497,800,000	2003
36	Colombia	3,300,000,000	2005
37	Egypt	3,300,000,000	2003^[27]
38	Denmark	3,271,600,000	2003
39	Vietnam	3,200,000,000	2005 ^[28]
40	Kuwait	3,007,000,000	2005
41	Algeria	2,994,000,000	2005
42	Romania	2,900,000,000	2007^[29]
43	Finland	2,800,000,000	FY06
44	Switzerland	2,548,000,000	2005
45	Austria	2,334,900,000	FY06^[30]
46	Morocco	2,306,000,000	2005
47	Czech Republic	2,170,000,000	2004
48	Ukraine	2,066,806,000	2008^[31]
49	Azerbaijan	2,000,000,000	2008^[32]
50	Angola	2,000,000,000	2005
51	Thailand	1,775,000,000	NA
52	Malaysia	1,690,000,000	NA
53	United Arab Emirates	1,600,000,000	NA
54	Slovakia	1,408,000,000	2008
55	Jordan	1,392,000,000	2005
56	Hungary	1,376,000,000	2007
57	Philippines	1,348,000,000	2007
58	Libya	1,300,000,000	2007
59	Ireland	1,300,000,000	2007
60	Serbia	1,200,000,000	2007
61	Georgia	1,200,000,000	2007
62	New Zealand	1,147,000,000	2005
63	Croatia	1,140,000,000	2008
64	Iraq	1,008,000,000	2007
65	Yemen	992,200,000	2005
66	Syria	858,000,000	2005
67	Bangladesh	836,900,000	2007
68	Peru	829,300,000	2005
69	Nigeria	737,600,000	2005
70	Bulgaria	730,000,000	2007
71	Qatar	694,000,000	2005
72	Cuba	694,000,000	NA
73	Bahrain	627,700,000	2005
74	Sri Lanka	606,200,000	2005
75	Sudan	587,000,000	2004
76	Lebanon	540,600,000	2004
77	Lithuania	490,800,000	FY01
78	Belarus	420,500,000	2006
79	Armenia	400,000,000	FY08 ^[33]
80	Cyprus	384,000,000	NA
81	Uruguay	371,200,000	2005
82	Slovenia	370,000,000	2007
83	Tunisia	356,000,000	NA
84	Madagascar	329,000,000	2005
85	Botswana	325,500,000	2005
86	Ethiopia	295,900,000	2004
87	Brunei	290,700,000	2004
88	Kenya	280,500,000	2005
89	Estonia	259,000,000	FY06
90	Oman	252,990,000	2005
91	Côte d'Ivoire	246,600,000	2005
92	Albania	235,000,000	2007
93	Bosnia and Herzegovina	234,300,000	NA
94	Luxembourg	231,076,480	2003
95	Cameroon	230,200,000	2005
96	Kazakhstan	221,800,000	FY02
97	Eritrea	220,100,000	2005
98	Uzbekistan	200,000,000	NA
99	Uganda	192,800,000	2005
100	Dominican Republic	180,000,000	FY98
101	Guatemala	169,800,000	2005
102	El Salvador	161,700,000	2005
103	Equatorial Guinea	152,200,000	2005
104	Panama	150,000,000	2005
105	Namibia	149,500,000	2005
106	Bolivia	130,000,000	2005
107	Zimbabwe	124,700,000	2005
108	Afghanistan	122,400,000	2005
109	Zambia	121,700,000	2005
110	Guinea	119,700,000	2005
111	Republic of Macedonia	117,710,000	2006
112	Senegal	117,300,000	2005
113	Cambodia	112,000,000	NA
114	Mali	106,300,000	2005
115	Nepal	104,900,000	2005
116	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	103,700,000	2005
117	Benin	100,900,000	2005
118	Honduras	99,410,000	2005
119	Turkmenistan	90,000,000	NA
120	Latvia	87,000,000	2007
121	Congo, Republic of the	85,220,000	2005
122	Ghana	83,650,000	2005
123	Costa Rica	83,460,000	2005
124	Mozambique	78,030,000	2005
125	Burkina Faso	74,830,000	2005
126	Chad	68,950,000	2005
127	Liberia	67,400,000	2005
128	Trinidad and Tobago	66,720,000	2003
129	Rwanda	53,660,000	2005
130	Paraguay	53,100,000	2003
131	Maldives	45,070,000	2005
132	Niger	44,780,000	2005
133	Malta	44,640,000	2005
134	Burundi	43,900,000	2005
135	Swaziland	41,600,000	2005
136	Lesotho	41,100,000	2005
137	Burma	NA	NA
138	Fiji	36,000,000	2004
139	Tajikistan	35,400,000	FY01
140	Nicaragua	32,270,000	2005
141	Jamaica	31,170,000	2003
142	Togo	29,980,000	2005
143	Djibouti	29,050,000	2005
144	Iceland	26,000,000	2008^[34]
145	Haiti	25,960,000	2003
146	Mongolia	23,100,000	FY02
147	Somalia	22,340,000	2005
148	Tanzania	21,200,000	2005
149	Mauritania	19,320,000	2005
150	Kyrgyzstan	19,200,000	FY01
151	Belize	19,000,000	2005
152	Papua New Guinea	16,900,000	2003
153	Central African Republic	16,370,000	2005
154	Malawi	15,810,000	2005
155	Seychelles	14,850,000	2005
156	Sierra Leone	14,250,000	2005
157	Comoros	12,870,000	2005
158	Mauritius	12,040,000	2005
159	Laos	11,040,000	2005
160	Guinea-Bissau	9,455,000	2005
161	Moldova	8,700,000	2004
162	Bhutan	8,281,000	2005
163	Suriname	7,494,000	2005
164	Cape Verde	7,178,000	2005
165	Guyana	6,479,000	2003
166	East Timor	4,400,000	FY03
167	Bermuda, UK overseas territory	4,030,000	2001
168	Gambia, The	1,547,000	2004
169	San Marino	700,000	2005
170	São Tomé and Príncipe	581,700	2004

[edit] Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Figures

The 15 countries with the largest defense budgets (2006)

This is a list of the fifteen countries with the highest defence budgets for the year 2006. The information is the most up-to-date from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,^[35] which is used to calculate defence spending by the British Ministry of Defence and many other government ministries in the European Union. Total World spending amounted to $1.158 trillion in 2006, with about half of the total amount spent by the United States.

Rank	Country	Military expenditures, USD	Date of information
—	World Total	1,158,000,000,000	2006 est.
1	United States	540,700,000,000	2007
2	United Kingdom	58,400,000,000	2007
3	France	53,100,000,000	2006
4	China	45,000,000,000	2007
5	Japan	42,700,000,000	2006
6	Germany	37,000,000,000	2006
7	Russia	34,200,000,000	2006 est.
8	Italy	28,100,000,000	2006
9	Saudi Arabia	27,200,000,000	2006
10	India	24,100,000,000	2006
11	South Korea	23,900,000,000	2006
12	Australia	14,100,000,000	2006
13	Canada	13,200,000,000	2006
14	Brazil	12,800,000,000	2006
15	Spain	12,300,000,000	2006

[edit] List of countries by military expenditure as a percentage of GDP

Map of the military expenditures as a percentage of GDP by country.

Below is a list of countries ranked by order of military expenditure as a percentage of GDP. This statistic reflects the importance of military buildup and army modernization for all countries. It also indicated how much priority each country places in military expenditure.

The greater a country spends on its military as a percentage of its GDP, the less money it will have to spend on other crucial aspects such as infrastructure and education, and the more likely it will come under scrutiny from other countries.^[36]

The trend is that developing countries, especially Middle Eastern countries with emerging markets due to their oil wealth, and countries in proximity of conflict zones seem to be spending the most as a percentage of their GDP to modernize their military and to try to catch up with Western countries, which spend less as a result of having built a strong modernized military over the past few decades.

Rank		Military expenditures as % of GDP	Date of information
1	North Korea	22.90	2003 est.
2	Georgia	15.90	2007 est.
3	Oman	11.40	2005 est.
4	Qatar	10.00	2005 est.
5	Saudi Arabia	10.00	2005 est.
6	Iraq	8.60	2006
7	Jordan	8.60	2006
8	Israel	7.30	2006
9	Yemen	6.60	2006
10	Armenia	6.50	2001
11	Eritrea	6.30	2006 est.
12	Burundi	5.90	2006 est.
13	Syria	5.90	2005 est.
14	Angola	5.70	2006
15	Mauritania	5.50	2006
16	Maldives	5.50	2005 est.

[edit] See also

Wikinews has related news:

Global annual military spending tops $1.2 trillion

[edit] Notes

^ http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Global_annual_military_spending_tops_$1.2_trillion
^ [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy08/pdf/budget/defense.pdf Department Of Defense
^ Sven Biscop (2006-09-15). "Ambiguous Ambition. Development of the EU security architecture; Paper presented at the colloquium The EC/EU: A World Security Actor? An Assessment after 50 Years of the External Actions of the EC/EU, Paris, EU Institute for Security Studies, 15 September 2006". The Royal Institute for International Relations - EGMONT. Retrieved on 2008-04-27. "a defence budget of over 200 billion euro" (converted into USD at the exchange rate current at end of April, 2008)
^ http://www.defense.gouv.fr/ministre/prises_de_parole/discours/projet_de_budget_2008_m_herve_morin_26_09_07 Conférence de presse de M. Hervé Morin, ministre de la Défense
^ Ministry of Defence | About Defence | Organisation | Key Facts about Defence | Defence Spending
^ China says military spending will go up 17.6 percent in 2008 - International Herald Tribune
^ Deutsche Welle
^ Asia Times Online
^ Defense spending to grow 20% in 2008 - Deputy Defense Minister Lyubov Kudelina [1]
^ Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: The fifteen major spenders in 2007.
^ http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/biz_view.asp?newsIdx=10607&categoryCode=123
^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ks.html
^ National Congress of Brazil. Brazilian Federal Budget (2008) - Ministry of Defense (Ministério da Defesa).
^ Australian Department of Defence (2006). Portfolio Budget Statements 2006-07. Page 19.
^ 2007-2008 Part I - The Government Expenditure Plan - Part 24 of 32
^ 2.1. De beleidsagenda 2008
^ Polish Department of Task Based Budgeting 2008 (PowerPoint)
^ NATO-RUSSIA COMPENDIUM OF DATA
^ Så fördelas pengarna
^ Iran's defense spending 'a fraction of Persian Gulf neighbors'
^ Global Firepower, Mexico profile
^ CIA World Factbook, Military expenditures
^ http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr007=7v1xpum9k3.app1b&page=NewsArticle&id=5827&news_iv_ctrl=1261
^ Saorbats, Chile profile
^ Budget at a glance
^ Uitgaven
^ Federation of American Scientists—Egypt Military Force
^ Global Security military expenditures
^ (MoND Budget as of 2007)
^ Austrian Military Budget for 2006: 1,81 Billion Euros/ Exchangerate 1:1,29
^ Ukrainian Armed Forces White Book
^ The budget of the Azeri Armed Forces reaches $2 Billion
^ Armenian's 2.5 Billion Budget for 2008 - A Realistic one
^ Icelandic State Budget for 2008
^ Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Website - Open (PDF) table "The fifteen major spenders in 2006"
^ World Politics Review | China's Latest Military Spending Increase Garners Anxious Reactions

[edit] References

Military expenditures, The World Factbook, CIA

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