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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, with about half of the total amount spent by the United States. List of countries by military expenditures This is a list of countries by military expenditures for the year 2004. Most of the information is from The World Factbook, CIA. 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. Notes Reference See also | ||||||||
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