Military Expenditures
WorldPoliticalGeopoliticalEconomicMilitary expenditures as a percentage of GDP, by country
World BankA world map shows military expenditures. Dark green (more than 6 percent): Algeria, Saudi Arabia. Green to light green (2 to 6 percent): Russia, U S A., India, Iran. Very light green (less than 2 percent): Canada, parts of Europe, Parts of Africa and Asia.
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Class | Rank | Percent of GDP | Class | Rank | Barrels per day | Class | Rank | Percent | Aden | Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | Bahama Islands | Basutoland | Bechuanaland | British Guiana | British Honduras | British North Borneo | Cameroons | Canada | Ceylon | Cyprus | Egypt | Falkland Islands | Fiji | Gambia | Gold Coast | India | Iraq | Irish Free State | Jamaica | Kenya | Kuwait | Malay States | Mauritius | New Hebrides | New Zealand | Newfoundland | Nigeria | North East New Guinea | Northern Rhodesia | Nyasaland | Oman | Palestine | Qatar | Samoa | Sarawak | Sierra Leone | Solomon Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | South West Africa | Southern Rhodesia | Swaziland | Tanganyika | Territory of Papua | Togo | Transjordan | Trinidad and Tobago | Trucial Oman | Uganda | Union of South Africa | United Kingdom | |
87.3% | 96.9% | 45.3% | 46.0% | 64.8% | 75.6% | 51.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40.9% | 94.0% | 84.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95.6% | 25.7% | 88.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98.8% | 96.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85.3% | 82.8% | 43.0% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95.5% | 3.10% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98.5% | 97.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21.9% | 97.5% | 39.6% | 38.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47.4% | 4.39% | 37.8% | 98.5% | 93.1% | 26.1% | 30.2% | 96.8% | 76.6% | 56.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59.9% | 98.3% | 99.7% | 6.31% | 94.1% | 84.5% | 98.1% | 94.9% | 99.5% | 98.2% | 96.4% | 99.3% | 99.7% | 97.2% | 96.9% | 12.1% | 99.3% | 96.0% |