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List Of Countries By Military Expenditures Per Capita
This is a list of countries by Military budget, military expenditure per capita, the amount spent by a nation on its military per capita in a given year. This list is sourced from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) for the year 2020. As of 2021, the top five per capita spenders are Qatar (~3955$), Israel (~2770$), United States (~2405$), Kuwait (~2085$) and Singapore (~1885$). All five countries have increased their spending since the previous year (2020). The United Arab Emirates, UAE, for which recent data is not available, has also spent historically large amounts of money on the military on a per capita basis. The UAE had a per capita spending of 2470$ per person back in 2014, making it the second highest spender in that year just after Saudi Arabia,SIPRI's 2020 est. availablhere but by 2020 that number had fallen to 2020.4. Military expenditure per capita spending In the table below, numbers are in USD. "xxx" means the country did not exist at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Budget
A military budget (or military expenditure), also known as a defense budget, is the amount of financial resources dedicated by a state to raising and maintaining an armed forces or other methods essential for defense purposes. Financing militaries Military budgets often reflect how strongly a country perceives the likelihood of threats against it, or the amount of aggression it wishes to conjure. It also gives an idea of how much financing should be provided for the upcoming fiscal year. The size of a budget also reflects the country's ability to fund military activities. Factors include the size of that country's economy, other financial demands on that entity, and the willingness of that entity's government or people to fund such military activity. Generally excluded from military expenditures is spending on internal law enforcement and disabled veteran rehabilitation. The effects of military expenditure on a nation's economy and society, and what determines military expendit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
