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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, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	6.00	NA
14	Brunei	5.90	2003
15	Syria	5.90	NA
16	Kuwait	5.80	2003
17	New Caledonia	5.30	FY96
18	Turkey	5.30	2003
19	Ethiopia	5.20	2003
20	Singapore	4.90	NA
21	Lebanon	4.80	NA
22	Morocco	4.80	2003
23	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.50	NA
24	Djibouti	4.40	2003
25	Greece	4.30	2003
26	Chile	4.00	2003
27	Libya	3.90	NA
28	Tajikistan	3.90	FY01
29	Pakistan	3.90	FY02/03
30	United States	3.90	2001
31	Cyprus	3.80	NA
32	Mauritania	3.70	2003
33	Botswana	3.60	2003
34	Egypt	3.60	2003
35	Algeria	3.50	2003
36	Colombia	3.40	FY01
37	Turkmenistan	3.40	NA
38	Iran	3.30	2003 est.
39	Sri Lanka	3.20	2003
40	United Arab Emirates	3.10	NA
41	Cambodia	3.00	NA
42	Comoros	3.00	2003
43	Rwanda	2.90	2003
44	Australia	2.80	2003
45	Guinea-Bissau	2.80	2003
46	Congo, Republic of the	2.80	2003
47	Benin	2.70	2003
48	Korea, South	2.70	FY03
49	Taiwan	2.70	2003
50	Azerbaijan	2.60	NA
51	Bulgaria	2.60	2003
52	France	2.60	2003
53	Lesotho	2.60	2003
54	Equatorial Guinea	2.50	2003
55	Sudan	2.50	NA
56	Vietnam	2.50	NA
57	Namibia	2.50	2003
58	Romania	2.47	2002
59	Ecuador	2.40	2003
60	United Kingdom	2.40	2003
61	India	2.40	2003
62	Croatia	2.39	2002 est.
63	Portugal	2.30	2003
64	Fiji	2.20	FY02
65	Mozambique	2.20	2003
66	Mongolia	2.20	FY02
67	Burma	2.10	NA
68	Brazil	2.10	2003
69	Uganda	2.10	2003
70	Sweden	2.10	FY01
71	Chad	2.10	2003
72	Czech Republic	2.10	FY01
73	Malaysia	2.03	NA
74	Belize	2.00	2003
75	World	2.00	NA
76	Finland	2.00	FY98/99
77	Gabon	2.00	2003
78	Uzbekistan	2.00	NA
79	Uruguay	2.00	2003
80	Estonia	2.00	2002 est.
81	Angola	1.90	2003
82	Togo	1.90	2003
83	Norway	1.90	2003
84	Lithuania	1.90	FY01
85	Italy	1.90	2003
86	Bhutan	1.90	2003
87	Slovakia	1.89	2002
88	Cuba	1.80	2003
89	Kenya	1.80	2003
90	Seychelles	1.80	2003
91	Swaziland	1.80	2003
92	Thailand	1.80	2003
93	Hungary	1.75	2002 est.
94	Poland	1.71	2002
95	Guinea	1.70	2003
96	South Africa	1.70	2003
97	Zimbabwe	1.70	2003
98	Slovenia	1.70	FY00
99	Bolivia	1.60	2003
100	Nepal	1.60	2003
101	Burkina Faso	1.60	2003
102	Denmark	1.60	2003
103	Netherlands	1.60	2003
104	Cape Verde	1.50	2003
105	Tunisia	1.50	NA
106	Sierra Leone	1.50	2003
107	Senegal	1.50	2003
108	Philippines	1.50	NA
109	Honduras	1.50	2003
110	Germany	1.50	2003
111	Albania	1.49	FY02
112	Belarus	1.40	FY02
113	Papua New Guinea	1.40	FY02
114	Kyrgyzstan	1.40	FY01
115	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1.40	2003
116	Ukraine	1.40	FY02
117	Cameroon	1.40	2003
118	Argentina	1.30	FY00
119	Belgium	1.30	2003
120	Venezuela	1.30	2003
121	Peru	1.30	2003
122	Mali	1.30	2003
123	Liberia	1.30	2003
124	Indonesia	1.30	NA
125	Bangladesh	1.20	2003
126	Cote d'Ivoire	1.20	2003
127	Spain	1.20	2003
128	Panama	1.20	2003
129	Nicaragua	1.20	2003
130	Madagascar	1.20	2003
131	Latvia	1.20	FY01
132	Canada	1.10	2003
133	El Salvador	1.10	2003
134	Dominican Republic	1.10	1998
135	Niger	1.10	2003
136	Central African Republic	1.10	2003
137	Afghanistan	1.00	2003
138	Switzerland	1.00	FY01
139	Japan	1.00	2003
140	New Zealand	1.00	FY02
141	Ireland	0.90	FY00/01
142	Zambia	0.90	2003
143	Somalia	0.90	2003
144	Paraguay	0.90	2003
145	Nigeria	0.90	2003
146	Mexico	0.90	2003
147	Haiti	0.90	2003
148	Luxembourg	0.90	2003
149	Kazakhstan	0.90	FY02
150	Austria	0.80	FY01/02
151	Sao Tome and Principe	0.80	2003
152	Guatemala	0.80	2003
153	Guyana	0.80	2003
154	Malawi	0.70	2003
155	Suriname	0.70	2003
156	Malta	0.70	2003
157	Ghana	0.60	2003
158	Trinidad and Tobago	0.60	2003
159	Georgia	0.59	NA
160	Laos	0.50	2003
161	Costa Rica	0.40	2003
162	Jamaica	0.40	2003
163	Moldova	0.40	FY02
164	Gambia, The	0.30	2003
165	Mauritius	0.20	2003
166	Tanzania	0.20	2003
167	Bermuda	0.11	NA

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