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Largest Military Expenditures, 2007

(Military expenditure: in MER¹ dollar terms)

Rank	Country	Spending level ($ billions)	Per capita ($)	World share (%)
1.	United States	$547	$1,799	45%
2.	United Kingdom	59.7	995	5
3.	China	58.3	44	5
4.	France	43.6	880	4
5.	Japan	43.6	339	4
6.	Germany	36.9	447	3
7.	Russia	35.4	249	3
8.	Saudi Arabia ^{2, 3}	33.8	1,310	3
9.	Italy	33.1	568	3
10.	India	24.2	21	2
11.	South Korea	22.6	470	2
12.	Brazil	15.3	80	1
13.	Canada ³	15.2	461	1
14.	Australia ³	15.1	336	1
15.	Spain	14.6	336	1
	Subtotal, top 15	1,008		83
	World	1,214	183	100

1. Market Exchange Rate. 2. Data for Iran and Saudi Arabia include expenditure for public order and safety and might be slight overestimates.

3. The populations of Australia, Canada, and Saudi Arabia each constitute less than 0.5% of the total world population.

Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2008, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

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