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On 7/6/25 00:32, Play_Chex Uribe Mand_R'ake wrote:
a425couple wrote:
List of countries with highest military expenditures
This is a list of countries with highest military expenditures.
Military spending by country
Highest military expenditure
edit
The first list is based on the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI) fact sheet, which includes a list of the world's top
40 military spenders as of 2024, based on current market exchange
rates.[1] -----
40 countries with the highest military spending worldwide in 2024[1]
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database List by the International
Institute for Strategic Studies
2025 edition of "The Military Balance" from the
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)[2][3][4]
for the year 2024
Rank Country Spending
(US$ bn) % of GDP % of global
spending
1 United States 997.0 3.4 37.0
2 China China[a] 314.0 1.7 12.0
3 Russia[a] 149.0 7.1 5.5
4 Germany Germany 88.5 1.9 3.3
5 India India 86.1 2.3 3.2
6 United Kingdom 81.8 2.3 3.0
7 Saudi Arabia ] 80.3 7.3 3.0
8 Ukraine Ukraine 64.7 34.0 2.4
9 France ] 64.7 2.1 2.4
10 Japan Japan 55.3 1.4 2.0
11 South Korea 47.6 2.6 1.8
12 Israel Israel 46.5 8.8 1.7
13 Poland b] 38.0 4.2 1.4
14 Italy Italy 38.0 1.6 1.4
15 Australia 33.8 1.9 1.2
16 Canada Canada 29.3 1.3 1.1
17 Turkey Turkey 25.0 1.9 1.0
18 Spain Spain 24.6 1.4 0.9
19 Netherlands Netherlands 23.2 1.9 0.7
20 Algeria Algeria 21.8 8.0 0.7
21 Brazil Brazil 20.9 1.0 0.7
22 Mexico Mexico 16.7 0.9 0.6
23 Taiwan Taiwan 16.5 2.1 0.5
24 Colombia Colombia 15.1 3.4 0.5
25 Singapore Singapore 15.1 2.8 0.4
26 Sweden Sweden 12.0 2.0 0.4
27 Indonesia Indonesia 11.0 0.8 0.4
28 Norway Norway 10.4 2.1 0.4
29 Pakistan Pakistan 10.2 2.7 0.4
30 Denmark Denmark 10.0 2.4 0.3
31 Romania Romania 8.7 2.3 0.3
32 Belgium Belgium 8.6 1.3 0.3
33 Greece Greece 8.0 3.1 0.3
34 Iran Iran 7.9 2.0 0.3
35 Kuwait Kuwait 7.8 4.8 0.3
36 Finland Finland 7.0 2.3 0.3
37 Switzerland Switzerland 6.7 0.7 0.2
38 Czech Republic Czechia 6.5 1.9 0.2
39 Iraq Iraq 6.2 2.4 0.2
40 Philippines Philippines 6.1 1.3 0.2
This is a geography lesson. I never expected Iraq to be on the list.
That is an interesting one.
However a big, serious (In My Humble Opinion) one is Taiwan.
Unless something is seriously misunderstood, why should the USA
even be considering getting in a serious fight, far from our shores,
when they only spend 2.1% of their own GDP on protecting themselves.
We spend 3.4%.
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