Military expenditure (current LCU) - Defense & arms trade - Public Sector - World Development Indicators

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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.)

Rank	Country	Value
Military expenditure (current LCU) - Defense & arms trade - Public Sector - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Iran	86,502,000,000,000
2	Indonesia	48,599,000,000,000
3	Vietnam	29,800,000,000,000
4	South Korea	26,649,000,000,000
5	North Korea	26,649,000,000,000
6	Colombia	17,858,000,000,000
7	Iraq	6,351,000,000,000
8	Japan	4,785,000,000,000
9	Chile	3,110,000,000,000
10	Lebanon	1,961,000,000,000
11	Belarus	1,775,000,000,000
12	Russia	1,458,000,000,000
13	India	1,306,000,000,000
14	Zambia	982,000,000,000
15	United States	607,263,000,000
16	China	590,000,000,000
17	Paraguay	577,000,000,000
18	Pakistan	336,000,000,000
19	Algeria	334,045,000,000
20	Hungary	321,486,000,000
21	Yemen	239,000,000,000
22	Tanzania	227,000,000,000
23	Angola	182,000,000,000
24	Madagascar	176,000,000,000
25	Kazakhstan	159,000,000,000
26	Cameroon	155,203,000,000
27	Ivory Coast	154,000,000,000
28	Saudi Arabia	143,336,000,000
29	Thailand	137,135,000,000
30	Sierra Leone	133,080,000,000
31	Sri Lanka	133,000,000,000
32	Armenia	116,000,000,000
33	Senegal	97,116,000,000
34	Democratic Republic of the Congo	89,500,000,000
35	Syria	86,800,000,000
36	Mali	77,300,000,000
37	Serbia	63,648,000,000
38	Burkina Faso	63,642,000,000
39	Republic of the Congo	63,020,000,000
40	Bangladesh	61,780,000,000
41	Philippines	60,145,000,000
42	Israel	58,106,000,000
43	Czech Republic	54,472,000,000
44	Burundi	52,000,000,000
45	Mexico	48,223,000,000
46	France	44,835,000,000
47	Brazil	42,730,000,000
48	Sweden	41,636,000,000
49	Kenya	41,132,000,000
50	Rwanda	37,000,000,000
51	Chad	36,100,000,000
52	United Kingdom	35,320,000,000
53	Norway	33,102,000,000
54	Germany	31,921,000,000
55	South Africa	31,058,000,000
56	Benin	30,330,000,000
57	Mauritania	29,400,000,000
58	Italy	27,708,000,000
59	Poland	25,873,000,000
60	Togo	25,529,000,000
61	Ukraine	25,341,000,000
62	Morocco	22,824,000,000
63	Denmark	22,741,000,000
64	Australia	21,935,000,000
65	Albania	21,650,000,000
66	Turkey	20,585,000,000
67	Canada	20,583,000,000
68	Egypt	20,534,000,000
69	Malaysia	14,552,000,000
70	Central African Republic	14,111,000,000
71	Spain	13,105,000,000
72	Afghanistan	12,032,000,000
73	Nepal	12,031,000,000
74	Singapore	10,622,000,000
75	Dominican Republic	9,216,000,000
76	Greece	8,620,000,000
77	Netherlands	8,348,000,000
78	Uruguay	8,228,000,000
79	Macedonia	8,160,000,000
80	Argentina	7,860,000,000
81	Romania	7,543,000,000
82	Venezuela	7,121,000,000
83	Djibouti	6,447,000,000
84	Croatia	6,224,000,000
85	Jamaica	5,845,000,000
86	Estonia	5,625,000,000
87	Peru	4,675,000,000
88	Kyrgyzstan	4,484,000,000
89	Switzerland	4,389,000,000
90	Belgium	3,775,000,000
91	Ethiopia	3,750,000,000
92	Portugal	3,285,000,000
93	Botswana	3,086,000,000
94	Austria	2,424,000,000
95	Finland	2,419,000,000
96	Namibia	2,200,000,000
97	Mozambique	2,034,000,000
98	New Zealand	1,960,000,000
99	Honduras	1,807,000,000
100	Bolivia	1,806,000,000
101	Lithuania	1,741,000,000
102	Oman	1,735,000,000
103	Ecuador	1,548,000,000
104	Georgia	1,547,000,000
105	Bulgaria	1,460,000,000
106	Guatemala	1,418,000,000
107	Libya	1,347,000,000
108	Kuwait	1,254,000,000
109	Ireland	1,079,000,000
110	Slovakia	1,044,413,463
111	Azerbaijan	1,020,000,000
112	Jordan	886,000,000
113	Nicaragua	809,000,000
114	Cape Verde	663,000,000
115	Tunisia	652,000,000
116	Cyprus	623,639,526
117	Slovenia	608,000,000
118	Brunei Darussalam	447,000,000
119	Lesotho	346,000,000
120	Bosnia and Herzegovina	345,000,000
121	Latvia	305,000,000
122	Moldova	279,000,000
123	Bahrain	220,000,000
124	Nigeria	192,000,000
125	Ghana	120,000,000
126	El Salvador	118,000,000
127	Papua New Guinea	95,000,000
128	Seychelles	77,000,000
129	Fiji	76,700,000
130	Bahamas	48,900,000
131	Montenegro	48,600,000
132	Malta	33,963,000

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