World's Largest Defense Budgets
This is a list of the ten countries with the highest defence budgets for the year 2011, which is $1.29 trillion or 74% of total world expenditures. The information is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Total world spending amounted to $1.74 trillion USD in 2011.
| Rank | Country | Spending ($ b.) | World Share (%) | % of GDP, 2011 |
| 1 | United States | 711.0 | 41.0 | 4.7 |
| 2 | Chinaa | 143.0 | 8.2 | 2.0 |
| 3 | Russiaa | 71.9 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 62.7 | 3.6 | 2.6 |
| 5 | France | 62.5 | 3.6 | 2.3 |
| 6 | Japan | 59.3 | 3.4 | 1.0 |
| 7 | India | 48.9 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabiab | 48.5 | 2.8 | 8.7 |
| 9 | Germanya | 46.7 | 2.7 | 1.3 |
| 10 | Brazil | 35.4 | 2.0 | 1.5 |
| World Total | 1735 | 74.3 | 2.5 |
- ^a SIPRI estimates
- ^b SIPRI: "The figures for Saudi Arabia include expenditure on public order and safety and might be slight overestimates"
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