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World's Military Expenditure...Various Countries

  • 25-02-2008 8:03pm
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

    Top countries in dollars


    Rank sort_none.gif Country sort_none.gif Military expenditures (USD) sort_none.gif Date of information sort_none.gif22px-Newworldmap.svg.png World Total 1,200,000,000,000 2007 (projected est.)[1]20px-Flag_of_NATO.svg.png NATO Total 849,875,309,000

    1 USA 623,000,000,000 2008 (Projected)[2]22px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png European Union Total 266,000,000,000 2007 [3]

    2 France 70,369,240,000 2008-2009 [4]

    3 22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png United Kingdom 66,392,500,000 2007-2008[5] China45,000,000,000 2007[6] 5 22px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png Germany 42,800,000,000 2008[7] 6 22px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png Japan 41,750,000,000 2007[8]



    The Republic of Ireland is 56.

    57 22px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png Libya 1,300,000,000 2007 56 22px-Flag_of_Ireland.svg.png Ireland 1,300,000,000 2007 58 22px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png Serbia 1,200,000,000 2007

    Curiously New Zealand spends less, but because it has been a member of NATO's southern hemisphere equivalent it has alot more hardware.

    60 22px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png New Zealand 1,147,000,000 2005


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