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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.
Foreign governments submit a Letter of Request (LOR) to a U.S. government Security Cooperation Organization (SCO), typically the Office of Defense Cooperation within the U.S. embassy in that country or directly to the DSCA or to a U.S. military department (Department of the Army, Department of the Navy or Department of the Air Force) or another Defense Department agency. [4]
The UAE, for which recent data is not available, has also spent historically large amounts of money on the military on a per capita basis. 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.
Rank Country Global Militarization Index (GMI) Military Expenditure Index Score People Index Score Heavy Weapons Index Score 1 Ukraine 335: 5.11: 1.29: 1.75
Military Expenditure Index Score: comparison of military expenditures with GDP and health care expenditures. People Index Score: contrast between the number of military and paramilitary forces with the overall population and the number of physicians. Heavy Weapons Index Score: number of heavy weapons available per capita.
Country Army Founded Endonym Ref. Abkhazia Abkhazia Army: 1992; 33 years ago () Afghanistan Islamic National Army: 1722; 303 years ago () Pashto: افغان ملي پوځ, romanized: Afǧān millí pawź Albania Albanian Land Force: 2000; 25 years ago () Albanian: Forca Tokësore të Republikës së Shqipërisë Algeria
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