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The following lists are of countries by military spending as a share of GDP—more specifically, a list of the 15 countries with the highest share in recent years. The first list uses the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute as a source, while the second list gets its data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies .
Military budget of China, USSR, Russia and US in constant 2021 US$ billions Military spending as a percent of federal government revenue. The military budget of the United States is the largest portion of the discretionary federal budget allocated to the Department of Defense (DoD), or more broadly, the portion of the budget that goes to any military-related expenditures.
A military budget (or military expenditure), also known as a defense budget, is the amount of financial resources dedicated by a state to raising and maintaining an armed forces or other methods essential for defense purposes.
A pie chart showing global military expenditures by country for 2019, in US$ billions, according to SIPRI. In 2009, the US Department of Defense's annual report to Congress on China's military strength offered several estimates of actual 2008 Chinese military spending.
A number of states have a two-year or three year budget (e.g.: Kentucky) while others have a one-year budget (e.g.: Massachusetts). In the table, the fiscal years column lists all of the fiscal years the budget covers and the budget and budget per capita columns show the total for all those years.
National defense spending is any government spending attributable to the maintenance and strengthening of the United States Armed Forces, including the Army, Navy, Marines, and the Air Force. [15] As of the fiscal year 2019 budget approved by Congress, national defense is the largest discretionary expenditure in the federal budget . [ 14 ]
As of 2010, the U.S. spent $80 billion on corrections expenditures at the federal, state and local levels, according to The Brookings Institute. 20 states that spend the most on prisons Skip to ...
The UAE had a per capita spending of $2470 per person back in 2014, making it the second highest spender in that year just after Saudi Arabia, [1] but by 2020 that number had fallen to $2204. [ 2 ] Military expenditure per capita spending