List of countries with highest military expenditures

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Figures

This is a list of the fifteen countries with the highest defence budgets for the year 2005. The information is the most up-to-date from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which is used to calculate defense spending by the British Ministry of Defence and many other government ministries in the European Union. Total World spending amounted to $1.0 trillion in 2005.

Rank		Country	Military expenditures, USD	Date of information
—		World Total	1,000,000,000,000	2005
1		United States	478,200,000,000	2005
		European Union	190,000,000,000	2004 est.
2		United Kingdom	48,300,000,000	2005
3		France	46,200,000,000	2005
4		Japan	42,100,000,000	2005
5		China	41,000,000,000	2005 est.
6		Germany	40,200,000,000	2005
7		Italy	27,200,000,000	2005
8		Saudi Arabia	25,200,000,000	2005
9		South Korea	21,600,000,000	2005
10		Russia	21,000,000,000	2005 est.
11		India	20,400,000,000	2005
12		Canada	10,600,000,000	2005
13		Australia	10,500,000,000	2005
14		Spain	9,900,000,000	2005
15		Israel	9,600,000,000	2005

list of countries by military expenditures

Military expenditure by country using CIA World Factbook figures

Military spending as a percentage of GDP using CIA World Factbook figures

This is a list of countries by military expenditures for the year 2004. Most of the information is from The World Factbook, CIA. [1]

The world spent over 896 billion US dollars on military expenditures and the United States spent the most with 58% of this total.

Note that for some countries (most notably Russia which is listed as having the third highest military expenditure of $50 billion here), no information was available to the Factbook's compilers; these countries were omitted from the list. Consequently, the total world expenditure is likely to be much higher than that given.

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

Rank		Country	Military expenditures, USD	Date of information
—		World Total	896,235,600,000	—
1		United States	518,100,000,000	2005
2		People's Republic of China	81,480,000,000	2005 (est.)
3		United Kingdom	58,600,000,000	2006
		Russia	50,000,000,000	est.
4		France	45,000,000,000	2005
5		Japan	44,700,000,000	2005
6		Germany	35,063,000,000	2003
7		Italy	28,182,800,000	2003
8		Saudi Arabia	25,400,000,000	2005
9		Australia	23,180,000,000	2005
10		South Korea	21,060,000,000	2005
11		India	19,040,000,000	2005
12		Turkey	16,155,000,000	2004
13		Brazil	11,000,000,000	2004
14		Canada	10,458,269,000	2004
15		Spain	9,906,500,000	2003
16		Netherlands	9,408,000,000	2004
17		Israel	9,110,000,000	FY03
18		Republic of China (Taiwan)	7,574,000,000	2003
19		Mexico	6,043,000,000	2004
20		Greece	5,790,000,000	2004
21		Sweden	5,729,000,000	2004
22		North Korea	5,217,400,000	FY02
23		Singapore	4,470,000,000	NA
24		Argentina	4,300,000,000	NA
25		Iran	4,300,000,000	2003 est.
26		Norway	4,033,500,000	2003
27		Belgium	3,999,000,000	2003
28		Pakistan	3,848,000,000	2004
29		Poland	3,500,000,000	2002
30		Portugal	3,497,800,000	2003
31		Chile	3,420,000,000	2004
32		Colombia	3,300,000,000	NA
33		Denmark	3,271,600,000	2003
34		South Africa	3,172,000,000	2004
35		Kuwait	2,584,500,000	2004
36		Switzerland	2,548,000,000	FY01
37		Algeria	2,480,000,000	2004
38		Egypt	2,440,000,000	2003
39		Morocco	2,305,600,000	2003
40		Czech Republic	2,170,000,000	2004
41		Finland	1,800,000,000	FY98/99
42		Thailand	1,775,000,000	NA
43		Malaysia	1,690,000,000	NA
44		Venezuela	1,687,000,000	2004
45		United Arab Emirates	1,600,000,000	NA
46		Austria	1,497,000,000	FY01/02
47		Jordan	1,460,000,000	2004
48		Indonesia	1,300,000,000	2004
49		Iraq	1,300,000,000	FY00
50		Libya	1,300,000,000	NA
51		New Zealand	1,147,000,000	FY03/04
52		Hungary	1,080,000,000	2002 est.
53		Bangladesh	995,300,000	2004
54		Romania	985,000,000	2002
55		Yemen	885,500,000	2003
56		Syria	858,000,000	NA
57		Peru	829,300,000	2003
58		Philippines	805,500,000	2004
59		Qatar	723,000,000	NA
60		Ireland	700,000,000	FY00/01
61		Ecuador	655,000,000	2004
62		Serbia and Montenegro	654,000,000	2002
63		Vietnam	650,000,000	NA
63		Azerbaijan	650,000,000	FY05
64		Bahrain	628,900,000	2004
65		Croatia	620,000,000	2004
66		Ukraine	617,900,000	FY02
67		Sudan	587,000,000	2004
68		Cuba	572,300,000	2003
69		Nigeria	544,600,000	2004
70		Lebanon	540,600,000	2004
71		Sri Lanka	514,800,000	2004
72		Bulgaria	503,000,000	FY05
73		Slovakia	406,000,000	2002
74		Cyprus	384,000,000	NA
75		Slovenia	370,000,000	FY00
76		Tunisia	356,000,000	NA
77		Botswana	338,500,000	2004
78		Ethiopia	337,100,000	2004
79		Brunei	290,700,000	2004
80		Uruguay	257,500,000	2004
81		Oman	252,990,000	2004
82		Bosnia and Herzegovina	234,300,000	NA
83		Luxembourg	231,600,000	2003
84		Lithuania	230,800,000	FY01
85		Kazakhstan	221,800,000	FY02
86		Cameroon	221,100,000	2004
87		Zimbabwe	217,000,000	2004
88		Guatemala	201,900,000	2004
89		Macedonia	200,000,000	NA
90		Uzbekistan	200,000,000	NA
91		Afghanistan	188,400,000	2004
92		Gabon	184,800,000	2004
93		Angola	183,580,000	2004
94		Côte d'Ivoire	180,200,000	2004
95		Dominican Republic	180,000,000	1998
96		Kenya	177,100,000	2004
97		Belarus	176,100,000	FY02
98		Uganda	170,300,000	2004
99		Namibia	168,400,000	2004
100		Armenia	162,000,000	FY05
101		El Salvador	157,000,000	2003
102		Estonia	155,000,000	2002 est.
103		Eritrea	151,000,000	2004
104		Panama	147,000,000	2004
105		Bolivia	132,200,000	2004
106		Congo, Republic of the	126,500,000	2004
107		Equatorial Guinea	126,200,000	2004
108		Mozambique	117,300,000	2004
109		Cambodia	112,000,000	NA
110		Senegal	107,300,000	2004
111		Zambia	106,800,000	2004
112		Chad	101,300,000	2004
113		Honduras	100,600,000	2004
114		Nepal	99,200,000	2004
115		Benin	96,500,000	2004
116		Congo, Democratic Republic of the	93,500,000	2004
117		Turkmenistan	90,000,000	NA
118		Latvia	87,000,000	FY01
119		Trinidad and Tobago	66,700,000	2003
120		Burkina Faso	64,200,000	2004
121		Guinea	56,700,000	2004
122		Albania	56,500,000	FY02
123		Paraguay	53,100,000	2004
124		Rwanda	50,100,000	2004
125		Ghana	49,200,000	2004
126		Madagascar	44,600,000	2004
127		Maldives	41,100,000	2004
128		Swaziland	40,500,000	2004
129		Burma	39,000,000	NA
130		Burundi	38,700,000	2004
131		Fiji	36,000,000	2004
132		Togo	35,500,000	2004
133		Tajikistan	35,400,000	FY01
134		Niger	33,300,000	2004
135		Nicaragua	32,800,000	2004
136		Lesotho	32,300,000	2004
137		Jamaica	31,200,000	2003
138		Malta	31,100,000	2004
139		Djibouti	28,600,000	2004
140		Haiti	26,000,000	2003
141		Mongolia	23,100,000	FY02
142		Georgia	23,000,000	NA
143		Mali	22,400,000	2004
144		Mauritania	20,800,000	2004
145		Tanzania	20,600,000	2004
146		Kyrgyzstan	19,200,000	FY01
147		Somalia	18,900,000	2003
148		Belize	18,000,000	2003
149		Papua New Guinea	16,900,000	2003
150		Central African Republic	15,500,000	2004
151		Cape Verde	14,100,000	2004
152		Bhutan	13,700,000	2004
153		Sierra Leone	13,200,000	2004
154		Mauritius	12,500,000	2004
155		Seychelles	12,300,000	2004
156		Comoros	11,600,000	2004
157		Malawi	11,100,000	2004
158		Laos	10,700,000	2004
159		Guinea-Bissau	8,900,000	2004
160		Moldova	8,700,000	2004
161		Suriname	7,500,000	2003
162		Guyana	6,500,000	2003
163		East Timor	4,400,000	FY03
164		Bermuda	4,030,000	2001
165		Liberia	1,500,000	2004
166		Gambia, The	1,000,000	2004
167		San Marino	700,000	FY00/01
168		São Tomé and Príncipe	700,000	2004

See also

• Military budget in the United States
• List of countries by military expenditure per capita
• List of countries without an army