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Rank Order - Military expenditures - percent of GDP

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Rank	Country	Military expenditures - percent of GDP (%)	Date of Information
1	Korea, North	22.90	2003
2	Jordan	20.20	2003
3	Eritrea	11.80	2003
4	Oman	11.40	2003
5	Qatar	10.00	NA
6	Saudi Arabia	10.00	2002
7	Israel	8.70	FY02
8	Maldives	8.60	2003
9	Yemen	7.90	2003
10	Bahrain	7.50	2003
11	Armenia	6.50	FY01
12	Burundi	6.00	2003
13	Macedonia	6.00	NA
14	Brunei	5.90	2003
15	Syria	5.90	NA
16	Kuwait	5.80	2003
17	Turkey	5.30	2003
18	Ethiopia	5.20	2003
19	Singapore	4.90	NA
20	Lebanon	4.80	NA
21	Morocco	4.80	2003
22	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.50	NA
23	Djibouti	4.40	2003
24	Greece	4.30	2003
25	Chile	4.00	2003
26	Libya	3.90	NA
27	Tajikistan	3.90	FY01
28	Pakistan	3.90	FY02/03
29	Cyprus	3.80	NA
30	Mauritania	3.70	2003
31	Botswana	3.60	2003
32	Egypt	3.60	2003
33	Algeria	3.50	2003
34	Colombia	3.40	FY01
35	Turkmenistan	3.40	NA
36	Iran	3.30	2003 est.
37	United States	3.30	February 2004
38	Sri Lanka	3.20	2003
39	United Arab Emirates	3.10	NA
40	Cambodia	3.00	NA
41	Comoros	3.00	2003
42	Rwanda	2.90	2003
43	Australia	2.80	2003
44	Guinea-Bissau	2.80	2003
45	Congo, Republic of the	2.80	2003
46	Benin	2.70	2003
47	Korea, South	2.70	FY03
48	Taiwan	2.70	2003
49	Azerbaijan	2.60	NA
50	Bulgaria	2.60	2003
51	France	2.60	2003
52	Lesotho	2.60	2003
53	Equatorial Guinea	2.50	2003
54	Sudan	2.50	NA
55	Vietnam	2.50	NA
56	Namibia	2.50	2003
57	Romania	2.47	2002
58	Ecuador	2.40	2003
59	United Kingdom	2.40	2003
60	India	2.40	2003
61	Croatia	2.39	2002 est.
62	Portugal	2.30	2003
63	Fiji	2.20	FY02
64	Mozambique	2.20	2003
65	Mongolia	2.20	FY02
66	Burma	2.10	NA
67	Brazil	2.10	2003
68	Uganda	2.10	2003
69	Sweden	2.10	FY01
70	Chad	2.10	2003
71	Czech Republic	2.10	FY01
72	Malaysia	2.03	NA
73	Belize	2.00	2003
74	World	2.00	NA
75	Finland	2.00	FY98/99
76	Gabon	2.00	2003
77	Uzbekistan	2.00	NA
78	Uruguay	2.00	2003
79	Estonia	2.00	2002 est.
80	Angola	1.90	2003
81	Togo	1.90	2003
82	Norway	1.90	2003
83	Lithuania	1.90	FY01
84	Italy	1.90	2003
85	Bhutan	1.90	2003
86	Slovakia	1.89	2002
87	Cuba	1.80	2003
88	Kenya	1.80	2003
89	Seychelles	1.80	2003
90	Swaziland	1.80	2003
91	Thailand	1.80	2003
92	Hungary	1.75	2002 est.
93	Poland	1.71	2002
94	Guinea	1.70	2003
95	South Africa	1.70	2003
96	Zimbabwe	1.70	2003
97	Slovenia	1.70	FY00
98	Bolivia	1.60	2003
99	Nepal	1.60	2003
100	Burkina Faso	1.60	2003
101	Denmark	1.60	2003
102	Netherlands	1.60	2003
103	Cape Verde	1.50	2003
104	Tunisia	1.50	NA
105	Sierra Leone	1.50	2003
106	Senegal	1.50	2003
107	Philippines	1.50	NA
108	Honduras	1.50	2003
109	Germany	1.50	2003
110	Albania	1.49	FY02
111	Belarus	1.40	FY02
112	Papua New Guinea	1.40	FY02
113	Kyrgyzstan	1.40	FY01
114	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1.40	2003
115	Ukraine	1.40	FY02
116	Cameroon	1.40	2003
117	Argentina	1.30	FY00
118	Belgium	1.30	2003
119	Venezuela	1.30	2003
120	Peru	1.30	2003
121	Mali	1.30	2003
122	Liberia	1.30	2003
123	Indonesia	1.30	NA
124	Bangladesh	1.20	2003
125	Cote d'Ivoire	1.20	2003
126	Spain	1.20	2003
127	Panama	1.20	2003
128	Nicaragua	1.20	2003
129	Madagascar	1.20	2003
130	Latvia	1.20	FY01
131	Canada	1.10	2003
132	El Salvador	1.10	2003
133	Dominican Republic	1.10	1998
134	Niger	1.10	2003
135	Central African Republic	1.10	2003
136	Afghanistan	1.00	2003
137	Switzerland	1.00	FY01
138	Japan	1.00	2003
139	New Zealand	1.00	FY02
140	Ireland	0.90	FY00/01
141	Zambia	0.90	2003
142	Somalia	0.90	2003
143	Paraguay	0.90	2003
144	Nigeria	0.90	2003
145	Mexico	0.90	2003
146	Haiti	0.90	2003
147	Luxembourg	0.90	2003
148	Kazakhstan	0.90	FY02
149	Austria	0.85	June 2004
150	Guatemala	0.80	2003
151	Guyana	0.80	2003
152	Sao Tome and Principe	0.80	2003
153	Malawi	0.70	2003
154	Suriname	0.70	2003
155	Malta	0.70	2003
156	Ghana	0.60	2003
157	Trinidad and Tobago	0.60	2003
158	Georgia	0.59	NA
159	Laos	0.50	2003
160	Costa Rica	0.40	2003
161	Jamaica	0.40	2003
162	Moldova	0.40	FY02
163	Gambia, The	0.30	2003
164	Mauritius	0.20	2003
165	Tanzania	0.20	2003
166	Bermuda	0.11	NA

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