List of countries and federations by military expenditures

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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.

Contents 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

Comparisons between figures in this table should be used with caution. See the notes below regarding the figures for the People's Republic of China. There are, however, other comparison issues inherent with these figures: for example, France includes in its defence expenditure the cost of maintaining the Gendarmerie, which is primarily used for what would be described in the United Kingdom, for example, as an internal police matter. Consequently, there is no corresponding expenditure made in the UK's defence budget.

Rank	Country		Military expenditures (USD)	Date of information
—	Image:Newworldmap.svg	World Total	1,200,000,000,000	2007 (projected est.)[1]
—	Image:Flag of NATO.svg	NATO Total	849,875,309,000
1	Image:Flag of the United States.svg	United States	623,000,000,000	2008 (Projected)[2]
—	Image:Flag of Europe.svg	European Union Total	300,745,000,000
2	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	United Kingdom	70,000,000,000	2007-2008[3]
3	Image:Flag of France.svg	France	65,370,000,000	2007
4	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	Germany	58,100,000,000	2007
5	Image:Flag of Japan.svg	Japan	49,100,000,000	2007
6	Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg	China	45,000,000,000	2007 [4]
7	Image:Flag of Italy.svg	Italy	34,000,000,000	2007 (est.)
8	Image:Flag of Russia.svg	Russia[5]	32,400,000,000 [6]	2007
9	Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg	Saudi Arabia	31,500,000,000	2008
10	Image:Flag of South Korea.svg	South Korea	26,050,000,000	2005
11	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg	Brazil	24,417,000,000[7]	2008
12	Image:Flag of India.svg	India	21,330,000,000	2007
13	Image:Flag of Canada.svg	Canada	16,900,000,000	2007
14	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	Spain	15,792,207,000	2006
15	Image:Flag of Turkey.svg	Turkey	15,166,000,000	2007
16	Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg	Netherlands	11,790,000,000	2008 (est.)
17	Image:Flag of Poland.svg	Poland	9,650,000,000	2008
18	Image:Flag of Israel.svg	Israel	9,444,000,000	2005
19	Image:Flag of Australia.svg	Australia[8]	140,412,502,000	2007
20	Image:Flag of the Republic of China.svg	Republic of China	9,200,000,000	2007
21	Image:Flag of Greece.svg	Greece[9]	7,648,561,000	2006 (est.)
22	Image:Flag of Singapore.svg	Singapore	7,053,000,000	2007
23	Image:Flag of Sweden.svg	Sweden	6,309,137,714[10]	2007
24	Image:Flag of Iran.svg	Iran[11]	6,300,000,000	2005
25	Image:Flag of Mexico.svg	Mexico[12][13]	6,070,000,000	2006
26	Image:Flag of Norway.svg	Norway	5,725,000,000	2007
27	Image:Flag of Chile.svg	Chile[14]	5,193,000,000	2007
28	Image:Flag of North Korea.svg	North Korea	5,000,000,000	2005
29	Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg	Pakistan	4,800,000,000	2006
30	Image:Flag of Argentina.svg	Argentina	4,300,000,000	NA
31	Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg	Venezuela	4,000,000,000	2007
32	Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg	Belgium	3,999,000,000	2003
33	Image:Flag of South Africa.svg	South Africa	3,700,000,000	2007
34	Image:Flag of Portugal.svg	Portugal	3,497,800,000	2003
35	Image:Flag of Colombia.svg	Colombia	3,300,000,000	NA
36	Image:Flag of Denmark.svg	Denmark	3,271,600,000	2003
37	Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg	Kuwait	3,007,000,000	2005
38	Image:Flag of Algeria.svg	Algeria	2,994,000,000	2005
39	Image:Flag of Romania.svg	Romania [15]	2,900,000,000	2007
40	Image:Flag of Finland.svg	Finland	2,800,000,000	FY06
41	Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg	Switzerland	2,548,000,000	2005
42	Image:Flag of Egypt.svg	Egypt	2,440,000,000	2003
43	Image:Flag of Austria.svg	Austria[16]	2,334,900,000	FY06
44	Image:Flag of Morocco.svg	Morocco	2,306,000,000	2005
45	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg	Czech Republic	2,170,000,000	2004
46	Image:Flag of Angola.svg	Angola	2,000,000,000	2005
47	Image:Flag of Thailand.svg	Thailand	1,775,000,000	NA
48	Image:Flag of Malaysia.svg	Malaysia	1,690,000,000	NA
49	Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg	United Arab Emirates	1,600,000,000	NA
50	Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg	Ukraine	1,520,000,000 [17]	2006
51	Image:Flag of Slovakia.svg	Slovakia	1,408,000,000	2008
52	Image:Flag of Jordan.svg	Jordan	1,392,000,000	2005
53	Image:Flag of Hungary.svg	Hungary	1,376,000,000	2007
54	Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg	Philippines	1,348,000,000	2007
55	Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg	Indonesia	1,300,000,000	2007
56	Image:Flag of Libya.svg	Libya	1,300,000,000	2007
56	Image:Flag of Ireland.svg	Ireland	1,300,000,000	2007
57	Image:Flag of Serbia.svg	Serbia	1,200,000,000	2007
58	Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg	New Zealand	1,147,000,000	2005
59	Image:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg	Azerbaijan	1,100,000,000	2007
60	Image:Flag of Iraq.svg	Iraq	1,008,000,000	2007
61	Image:Flag of Yemen.svg	Yemen	992,200,000	2005
62	Image:Flag of Albania.svg	Albania	916,440,000	2007
63	Image:Flag of Syria.svg	Syria	858,000,000	2005
64	Image:Flag of Bangladesh.svg	Bangladesh	836,900,000	2007
65	Image:Flag of Peru.svg	Peru	829,300,000	2005
66	Image:Flag of Croatia.svg	Croatia	804,000,000	2007
67	Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg	Nigeria	737,600,000	2005
68	Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg	Bulgaria	730,000,000	2007
69	Image:Flag of Qatar.svg	Qatar	694,000,000	2005
69	Image:Flag of Cuba.svg	Cuba	694,000,000	NA
70	Image:Flag of Vietnam.svg	Vietnam	650,000,000	NA
71	Image:Flag of Bahrain.svg	Bahrain	627,700,000	2005
72	Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg	Sri Lanka	606,200,000	2005
73	Image:Flag of Sudan.svg	Sudan	587,000,000	2004
77	Image:Flag of Georgia.svg	Georgia	567,200,000	2007
75	Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg	Lebanon	540,600,000	2004
76	Image:Flag of Lithuania.svg	Lithuania	490,800,000	FY01
77	Image:Flag of Belarus.svg	Belarus	420,500,000	2006
78	Image:Flag of Cyprus.svg	Cyprus	384,000,000	NA
79	Image:Flag of Armenia.svg	Armenia	382,300,000	FY
80	Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg	Uruguay	371,200,000	2005
81	Image:Flag of Slovenia.svg	Slovenia	370,000,000	2007
82	Image:Flag of Tunisia.svg	Tunisia	356,000,000	NA
83	Image:Flag of Madagascar.svg	Madagascar	329,000,000	2005
84	Image:Flag of Botswana.svg	Botswana	325,500,000	2005
85	Image:Flag of Ethiopia.svg	Ethiopia	295,900,000	2004
86	Image:Flag of Brunei.svg	Brunei	290,700,000	2004
87	Image:Flag of Kenya.svg	Kenya	280,500,000	2005
88	Image:Flag of Estonia.svg	Estonia	259,000,000	FY06
89	Image:Flag of Albania.svg	Albania	258,500,000	2007
90	Image:Flag of Oman.svg	Oman	252,990,000	2005
91	Image:Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg	Côte d'Ivoire	246,600,000	2005
92	Image:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg	Bosnia and Herzegovina	234,300,000	NA
93	Image:Flag of Luxembourg.svg	Luxembourg	231,076,480	2003
94	Image:Flag of Cameroon.svg	Cameroon	230,200,000	2005
95	Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg	Kazakhstan	221,800,000	FY02
96	Image:Flag of Eritrea.svg	Eritrea	220,100,000	2005
97	Image:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg	Uzbekistan	200,000,000	NA
98	Image:Flag of Uganda.svg	Uganda	192,800,000	2005
99	Image:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg	Dominican Republic	180,000,000	FY98
100	Image:Flag of Guatemala.svg	Guatemala	169,800,000	2005
101	Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg	El Salvador	161,700,000	2005
102	Image:Flag of Equatorial Guinea.svg	Equatorial Guinea	152,200,000	2005
103	Image:Flag of Panama.svg	Panama	150,000,000	2005
104	Image:Flag of Namibia.svg	Namibia	149,500,000	2005
105	Image:Flag of Bolivia.svg	Bolivia	130,000,000	2005
106	Image:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg	Zimbabwe	124,700,000	2005
107	Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg	Afghanistan	122,400,000	2005
108	Image:Flag of Zambia.svg	Zambia	121,700,000	2005
109	Image:Flag of Guinea.svg	Guinea	119,700,000	2005
110	Image:Flag of Macedonia.svg	Republic of Macedonia	117,710,000	2006
111	Image:Flag of Senegal.svg	Senegal	117,300,000	2005
112	Image:Flag of Cambodia.svg	Cambodia	112,000,000	NA
113	Image:Flag of Mali.svg	Mali	106,300,000	2005
114	Image:Flag of Nepal.svg	Nepal	104,900,000	2005
115	Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	103,700,000	2005
116	Image:Flag of Benin.svg	Benin	100,900,000	2005
117	Image:Flag of Honduras.svg	Honduras	99,410,000	2005
118	Image:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg	Turkmenistan	90,000,000	NA
119	Image:Flag of Latvia.svg	Latvia	87,000,000	2007
120	Image:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg	Congo, Republic of the	85,220,000	2005
121	Image:Flag of Ghana.svg	Ghana	83,650,000	2005
122	Image:Flag of Costa Rica.svg	Costa Rica	83,460,000	2005
123	Image:Flag of Mozambique.svg	Mozambique	78,030,000	2005
124	Image:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg	Burkina Faso	74,830,000	2005
125	Image:Flag of Chad.svg	Chad	68,950,000	2005
126	Image:Flag of Liberia.svg	Liberia	67,400,000	2005
127	Image:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg	Trinidad and Tobago	66,720,000	2003
128	Image:Flag of Rwanda.svg	Rwanda	53,660,000	2005
129	Image:Flag of Paraguay.svg	Paraguay	53,100,000	2003
130	Image:Flag of Maldives.svg	Maldives	45,070,000	2005
131	Image:Flag of Niger.svg	Niger	44,780,000	2005
132	Image:Flag of Malta.svg	Malta	44,640,000	2005
133	Image:Flag of Burundi.svg	Burundi	43,900,000	2005
134	Image:Flag of Swaziland.svg	Swaziland	41,600,000	2005
135	Image:Flag of Lesotho.svg	Lesotho	41,100,000	2005
136	Image:Flag of Myanmar.svg	Burma	39,000,000	NA
137	Image:Flag of Fiji.svg	Fiji	36,000,000	2004
138	Image:Flag of Tajikistan.svg	Tajikistan	35,400,000	FY01
139	Image:Flag of Nicaragua.svg	Nicaragua	32,270,000	2005
140	Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg	Jamaica	31,170,000	2003
141	Image:Flag of Togo.svg	Togo	29,980,000	2005
142	Image:Flag of Djibouti.svg	Djibouti	29,050,000	2005
143	Image:Flag of Iceland.svg	Iceland[18]	26,000,000	2008
144	Image:Flag of Haiti.svg	Haiti	25,960,000	2003
145	Image:Flag of Mongolia.svg	Mongolia	23,100,000	FY02
146	Image:Flag of Somalia.svg	Somalia	22,340,000	2005
147	Image:Flag of Tanzania.svg	Tanzania	21,200,000	2005
148	Image:Flag of Mauritania.svg	Mauritania	19,320,000	2005
149	Image:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg	Kyrgyzstan	19,200,000	FY01
150	Image:Flag of Belize.svg	Belize	19,000,000	2005
151	Image:Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg	Papua New Guinea	16,900,000	2003
152	Image:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg	Central African Republic	16,370,000	2005
153	Image:Flag of Malawi.svg	Malawi	15,810,000	2005
154	Image:Flag of the Seychelles.svg	Seychelles	14,850,000	2005
155	Image:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg	Sierra Leone	14,250,000	2005
156	Image:Flag of the Comoros.svg	Comoros	12,870,000	2005
157	Image:Flag of Mauritius.svg	Mauritius	12,040,000	2005
158	Image:Flag of Laos.svg	Laos	11,040,000	2005
159	Image:Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg	Guinea-Bissau	9,455,000	2005
160	Image:Flag of Moldova.svg	Moldova	8,700,000	2004
161	Image:Flag of Bhutan.svg	Bhutan	8,281,000	2005
162	Image:Flag of Suriname.svg	Suriname	7,494,000	2005
163	Image:Flag of Cape Verde.svg	Cape Verde	7,178,000	2005
164	Image:Flag of Guyana.svg	Guyana	6,479,000	2003
165	Image:Flag of East Timor.svg	East Timor	4,400,000	FY03
166	Image:Flag of Bermuda.svg	Bermuda, UK overseas territory	4,030,000	2001
167	Image:Flag of The Gambia.svg	Gambia, The	1,547,000	2004
168	Image:Flag of San Marino.svg	San Marino	700,000	2005
169	Image:Flag of Sao Tome and Principe.svg	São Tomé and Príncipe	581,700	2004

[edit] Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Figures

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,^[19] 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	Image:Flag of the United States.svg	United States	540,700,000,000	2007
2	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	United Kingdom	59,200,000,000	2006
3	Image:Flag of France.svg	France	53,100,000,000	2006
4	Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg	People's Republic of China	49,500,000,000	2006 est.
5	Image:Flag of Japan.svg	Japan	43,700,000,000	2006
6	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	Germany	37,000,000,000	2006
7	Image:Flag of Russia.svg	Russia	34,700,000,000	2006 est.
8	Image:Flag of Italy.svg	Italy	29,900,000,000	2006
9	Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg	Saudi Arabia	29,000,000,000	2006
10	Image:Flag of India.svg	India	23,900,000,000	2006
11	Image:Flag of South Korea.svg	South Korea	21,900,000,000	2006
12	Image:Flag of Australia.svg	Australia	13,800,000,000	2006
13	Image:Flag of Canada.svg	Canada	13,500,000,000	2006
14	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg	Brazil	13,400,000,000	2006
15	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	Spain	12,300,000,000	2006

[edit] List of Countries by Military Expenditure as a percentage of GDP

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. ^[20]

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

[edit] See also

• Military budget of the United States
• List of countries by size of armed forces
• List of countries without an army

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Military expenditures, The World Factbook, CIA

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