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| Selected Countries |
Military Budget
($Billions) |
| United States |
399.1 |
| Russia* |
65.0 |
| China* |
47.0 |
| Japan |
42.6 |
| United Kingdom |
38.4 |
| France |
29.5 |
| Germany |
24.9 |
| Saudi Arabia |
21.3 |
| Italy |
19.4 |
| India |
15.6 |
| South Korea |
14.1 |
| Brazil* |
10.7 |
| Taiwan* |
10.7 |
| Israel |
10.6 |
| Spain |
8.4 |
| Australia |
7.6 |
| Canada |
7.6 |
| Netherlands |
6.6 |
| Turkey |
5.8 |
| Mexico |
5.9 |
| Kuwait* |
3.9 |
| Ukraine |
5.0 |
| Iran* |
4.8 |
| Singapore |
4.8 |
| Sweden |
4.5 |
| Egypt* |
4.4 |
| Norway |
3.8 |
| Greece |
3.5 |
| Poland |
3.5 |
| Argentina* |
3.3 |
| United Arab Emirates* |
3.1 |
| Colombia* |
2.9 |
| Belgium |
2.7 |
| Pakistan* |
2.6 |
| Denmark |
2.4 |
| Vietnam |
2.4 |
| North Korea* |
2.1 |
| Czech Republic |
1.6 |
| Iraq* |
1.4 |
| Philippines |
1.4 |
| Portugal |
1.3 |
| Libya* |
1.2 |
| Hungary |
1.1 |
| Syria |
1.0 |
| Cuba* |
0.8 |
| Sudan* |
0.6 |
| Yugoslavia |
0.7 |
| Luxembourg |
0.2 |
Figures are for latest year available, usually 2002. Expenditures are used in a few cases where official budgets are significantly lower than actual spending. The figure for the United States is from the annual budget request for Fiscal Year 2004.
* 2001 Funding
Table prepared by Center for Defense Information.
Sources: International Institute for Strategic Studies, Department of Defense
"For 45 years of the Cold War we were in an arms race with the Soviet Union. Now it appears we're in an arms race with ourselves."
Admiral Eugene Carroll, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Vice President Emeritus
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