How Much Money Does Canada Spend On Military

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A pie chart showing global military expenditures by country for 2019, in US$ billions, according to SIPRI

Map of military spending as a percentage of GDP for countries according to SIPRI, 2020.^[1]

This is a list of countries by military expenditure in a given year. Military expenditure figures are presented in United States dollars based on either constant or current exchange rates.^[2]

Military expenditure, total [edit]

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 2020 fact sheet

The first list is based on the SIPRI fact sheet which includes a list of the world's top 15 military spenders in 2020, based on current market exchange rates.^[2]

The second list is based on the 2021 edition of "The Military Balance" published by the (IISS) using average market exchange rates.^[3]

List by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
2021 Fact Sheet (for 2020) ^[2]
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database^[4]

List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Top 15 Defence Budgets 2020 ^[5]

Rank	Country	Spending (US$ bn)	% of GDP	% of Global Spending
	World total	1,981	2.4	100%
01	United States	778.0	3.7	39%
02	China^[a]	252.0	1.7	13%
03	India	72.9	2.9	3.7%
04	Russian Federation	61.7	4.3	3.1%
05	United Kingdom	59.2	2.2	3.0%
06	Saudi Arabia^[a] ^[b]	57.5	8.4	2.9%
07	Germany	52.8	1.4	2.7%
08	France	52.7	2.1	2.7%
09	Japan	49.1	1.0	2.5%
10	South Korea	45.7	2.8	2.3%
11	Australia	32.4	2.1	2.1%
12	Italy	28.9	1.6	1.5%
13	Canada	22.8	1.4	1.1%
14	Israel	21.7	5.6	1.1%
15	Brazil	19.7	1.4	1.0%

2021 edition of "The Military Balance" from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Rank	Country	Spending (US$ bn)
01	United States	738.0
02	China	193.3
03	India	64.1
04	United Kingdom	61.5
05	Russia	60.6
06	France	55.0
07	Germany	51.3
08	Japan	49.7
09	Saudi Arabia	48.5
10	South Korea	40.4
11	Australia	31.3
12	Italy	29.3
13	Brazil	22.1
14	Canada	20.0
15	Israel	19.9

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This first list is a list of countries by military expenditure share of GDP—more specifically, a list of the top 15 countries by percentage share in recent years—the amount spent by a nation on its military as a share of its GDP.

The second list presents this as a share of the general government expenditure. The first list is sourced from the SIPRI for the year 2019 and from Military Balance 2017 published by International Institute for Strategic Studies for the year 2016. The second list is sourced only from the SIPRI for the year 2019.

None of the following analyze Cuba, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea, or Syria, because although they likely would make the list, there is not enough information available to properly determine an exact statistic for their military spending as a percentage of GDP.

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List by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database ^[6] (2019)

List by the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Top 15 Defence Budgets 2020 ^[5]

Rank	Country	% of GDP
1	Oman	8.8%
2	Saudi Arabia	8.0%
3	Algeria	6.0%
4	Kuwait	5.6%
5	Israel	5.3%
6	Armenia	4.9%
7	Jordan	4.7%
8	Lebanon	4.2%
9	Azerbaijan	4.0%
10	Pakistan	4.0%
11	Russia	3.9%
12	Bahrain	3.7%
13	Iraq	3.5%^*
14	USA	3.4%
15	South Sudan	3.4%

Rank	Country	% of GDP
01	Oman	12.0
02	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan	10.6
03	Lebanon	10.5
04	Kuwait	7.1
05	Saudi Arabia	7.1
06	Algeria	6.7
07	Iraq	5.8
08	UAE	5.6
09	Azerbaijan	5.4
10	Morocco	5.3
10	Israel	5.2
12	Jordan	4.9
13	Armenia	4.8
13	Mali	4.5
15	Qatar	4.4

* Bold values with an asterisk above are highly uncertain SIPRI estimates.

Italic values are SIPRI estimates.

Notes [edit]

^ ^a ^b SIPRI estimate.
^ The figures for Saudi Arabia include expenditure for public order and safety and might be slightly overestimated.^{[ citation needed ]}

References [edit]

^ "Home | SIPRI". www.sipri.org. 15 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Tian, Nan; Fleurant, Aude; Kuimova, Alexandra; Wezeman, Pieter D.; Wezeman, Siemon T. (26 April 2021). "Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2020" (PDF). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
^ International Institute for Strategic Studies (25 February 2021). The Military Balance 2021. London: Routledge. ISBN978-1032012278.
^ "Data for all countries from 1988–2020 in constant (2019) USD (pdf)" (PDF). SIPRI. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b "IISS Military Balance 2021". The Military Balance. International Institute for Strategic Studies. 121 (1): 23–29. January 2021. doi:10.1080/04597222.2021.1868791. S2CID 232050862.
^ Excel file here | Derived from SIPRI's own webpage.

External links [edit]

SIPRI military expenditure database (sipri.org)