Military expenditure (current LCU) - National accounts - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators



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Data for some countries are based on partial or uncertain data or rough estimates. Military expenditures data from SIPRI are derived from the NATO definition, which includes all current and capital expenditures on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces; defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects; paramilitary forces, if these are judged to be trained and equipped for military operations; and military space activities. Such expenditures include military and civil personnel, including retirement pensions of military personnel and social services for personnel; operation and maintenance; procurement; military research and development; and military aid (in the military expenditures of the donor country). Excluded are civil defense and current expenditures for previous military activities, such as for veterans' benefits, demobilization, conversion, and destruction of weapons. This definition cannot be applied for all countries, however, since that would require much more detailed information than is available about what is included in military budgets and off-budget military expenditure items. (For example, military budgets might or might not cover civil defense, reserves and auxiliary forces, police and paramilitary forces, dual-purpose forces such as military and civilian police, military grants in kind, pensions for military personnel, and social security contributions paid by one part of government to another.). Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.
Military expenditure (current LCU) - National accounts - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators (2008)

Rank

Country

Value

1Zambia982,000,000,000
2Algeria334,045,000,000
3Tanzania227,000,000,000
4Angola182,000,000,000
5Madagascar176,000,000,000
6Cameroon155,203,000,000
7Ivory Coast154,000,000,000
8Sierra Leone133,080,000,000
9Senegal97,116,000,000
10Mali77,300,000,000
11Burkina Faso63,642,000,000
12Republic of the Congo63,020,000,000
13Burundi52,000,000,000
14Kenya41,132,000,000
15Rwanda37,000,000,000
16Chad36,100,000,000
17South Africa31,058,000,000
18Benin30,330,000,000
19Mauritania29,400,000,000
20Togo25,529,000,000
21Morocco22,824,000,000
22Egypt20,534,000,000
23Central African Republic14,111,000,000
24Djibouti6,447,000,000
25Ethiopia3,750,000,000
26Botswana3,086,000,000
27Namibia2,200,000,000
28Mozambique2,034,000,000
29Libya1,347,000,000
30Cape Verde663,000,000
31Tunisia652,000,000
32Lesotho346,000,000
33Nigeria192,000,000
34Ghana120,000,000
35Democratic Republic of the Congo89,500,000
36Seychelles77,000,000
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