List of countries by military expenditures

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Military spending in 2007, in USD, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Conversion to USD done by .

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 somewhat higher than that given.

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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, Italy and Spain include in their defence expenditures the costs of maintaining the Gendarmerie, Carabinieri and Guardia Civil- all of which are primarily domestic police forces. On the other hand some countries account military expenses under other budget voices: for example China, Mexico 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.

Note that this data is typically compiled by attempting to compute the local currency military expenditures, and then converting them at market exchange rates into a common currency. Therefore changes in the currency markets can cause a nations estimated military expenditures to change, even if that nation's budget remains constant. For developing economies, including China and India, this will result a smaller estimate than if the conversion were done using purchasing power parity. The differences can be substantial. For example, the Chinese Renminbi has a market price of 6.992 per US dollar at the market exchange rate, and an estimated purchasing power parity conversion of 3.694^[1]. Using the purchasing power conversion would almost double the Chinese military estimate.

Rank	Country		Military expenditures (USD)	Date of information
—		World Total	1,470,000,000,000	2008[2]
—		NATO Total	1,049,875,309,000
1		United States	711,000,000,000	2009[3]
—		European Union Total	311,920,000,000	2007[4]
2		France	61,571,330,000	2008-2009[5]
3		United Kingdom	61,280,890,000	2008[6]
4		People's Republic of China	58,800,000,000	2008[7]
5		Russia	50,000,000,000	2009[8][9]
6		Japan	48,860,000,000	2008[10]
7		Germany	45,930,000,000	2008[11]
8		Saudi Arabia	31,050,000,000	2008[12]
9		Turkey	30,936,000,000	2008[13]
10		South Korea	28,940,000,000	2008[14]
11		India	26,500,000,000	2008-2009[1]
12		Australia	24,802,000,000	2008[15]
13		Brazil	23,972,836,012	2009[16]
14		Canada	19,507,013,000	2008-2009[17]
15		Iraq	17,900,000,000	2008
16		Italy	15,500,000,000	2006[18]
17		Israel	13,300,000,000	2009[19]
18		Netherlands	12,000,000,000	2008[20]
19		Republic of China (Taiwan)	10,500,000,000	2008
20		Spain	9,100,000,000	2006[21]
21		Poland	8,600,000,000	2009[22]
22		Greece	7,934,000,000	2007[23]
23		Pakistan	7,800,000,000	2008
24		Singapore	7,129,400,000	2007
25		Sweden	6,309,137,714	2007[24]
26		Iran	6,300,000,000	2005[25]
27		Mexico	6,070,000,000	2006[26][27]
28		Norway	5,725,000,000	2007
29		North Korea	5,500,000,000	2005[28]
30		Chile	5,193,000,000	2007[29]
31		Thailand	5,000,000,000	2009 [30]
32		Indonesia	4,740,000,000	2008
33		Argentina	4,300,000,000	NA
34		South Africa	4,067,879,840	2008-2009[31]
35		Belgium	4,000,000,000	2007[32]
36		Venezuela	4,000,000,000	2007
37		Portugal	3,497,800,000	2003
38		Colombia	3,300,000,000	2005
39		Egypt	3,300,000,000	2003[33]
40		Denmark	3,271,600,000	2003
41		Vietnam	3,200,000,000	2005 [34]
42		Kuwait	3,007,000,000	2005
43		Algeria	2,994,000,000	2005
44		Austria	2,978,000,000	FY08[35]
45		Romania	2,900,000,000	2007[36]
46		Czech Republic	2,840,000,000	2008[37]
47		Finland	2,800,000,000	FY06
48		Switzerland	2,548,000,000	2005
49		Azerbaijan	2,460,000,000	2009[38][39]
50		Morocco	2,306,000,000	2005
51		Ukraine	2,066,806,000	2008[40]
52		Angola	2,000,000,000	2005
53		Peru	1,829,300,000	2008 [41]
54		Malaysia	1,690,000,000	NA
55		Sri Lanka	1,610,000,000	2008-2009[]
56		United Arab Emirates	1,600,000,000	NA
57		New Zealand	1,526,000,000	2008
58		Slovakia	1,408,000,000	2008
59		Jordan	1,392,000,000	2005
60		Hungary	1,376,000,000	2007
61		Philippines	1,348,000,000	2007
62		Libya	1,300,000,000	2007
63		Ireland	1,300,000,000	2007
64		Serbia	1,200,000,000	2007
65		Georgia	1,200,000,000	2007
66		Croatia	1,140,000,000	2008
67		Yemen	992,200,000	2005
68		Syria	858,000,000	2005
69		Bangladesh	836,900,000	2007
70		Nigeria	737,600,000	2005
71		Bulgaria	730,000,000	2007
72		Qatar	694,000,000	2005
73		Cuba	694,000,000	NA
74		Bahrain	627,700,000	2005
75		Lithuania	621,000,000	2007
76		Sudan	587,000,000	2004
77		Lebanon	540,600,000	2004
78		Armenia	495,000,000	2009[42]
79		Belarus	420,500,000	2006
80		Ethiopia	400,000,000	2008/9[43][44]
81		Cyprus	384,000,000	NA
82		Uruguay	371,200,000	2005
83		Slovenia	370,000,000	2007
84		Tunisia	356,000,000	NA
85		Madagascar	329,000,000	2005
86		Botswana	325,500,000	2005
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[45]
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

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute figures

The 15 countries with the largest defense budgets (2007)

Rank		Country	Spending ($ b.)	World Share (%)
—		World Total	1339.0	100
1		United States	547.0	45
2		United Kingdom	59.7	5
3		China	58.3	5
4		France	53.6	4
5		Japan	43.6	4
6		Germany	36.9	3
7		Russia	35.4	3
8		Saudi Arabia	33.8	3
9		Italy	33.1	3
10		India	24.2	2
11		South Korea	22.6	2
12		Brazil	15.3	1
13		Canada	15.2	1
14		Australia	15.1	1
15		Spain	14.6	1

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.^[46]

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		North Korea	22.90	2003 est.
2		Oman	11.40	2005 est.
3		Qatar	10.00	2005 est.
4		Saudi Arabia	10.00	2005 est.
5		Iraq	8.60	2006
6		Jordan	8.60	2006
7		Israel	7.30	2006
8		Yemen	6.60	2006
9		Armenia	6.50	2001
10		Eritrea	6.30	2006 est.
11		Burundi	5.90	2006 est.
12		Syria	5.90	2005 est.
13		Colombia	5.70	2008 est.[47]
14		Angola	5.70	2006
15		Mauritania	5.50	2006
16		Maldives	5.50	2005 est.

See also

Wikinews has related news: Global annual military spending tops $1.2 trillion

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

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