New SIPRI Policy Paper: the impact of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports
Burden comparison
Countries with the highest and lowest military burden in 2002;a social and military expenditure as a share of gross domestic product, 2000-2002
Figures are percentages
| High-income countriesb | Low- and middle-income countriesb | ||||||
| Countryc | Educationd | Healthe | Militaryf | Countryc | Educationd | Healthe | Militaryf |
|
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| Kuwait |
. .
|
2.6
|
10.4
|
Eritrea |
4.8d
|
2.8
|
23.5
|
| Israel |
7.3
|
8.3
|
9.2
|
Oman |
3.9d
|
2.3
|
[12.3]
|
| Brunei |
4.8
|
2.5
|
7.0
|
Saudi Arabia |
9.5d
|
4.2
|
9.8
|
| Singapore |
3.7d
|
1.2
|
5.2
|
Jordan |
5.0
|
4.2
|
8.4
|
| Greece |
3.8
|
4.6
|
4.3
|
Burundi |
3.4
|
1.6
|
7.6
|
| UAE |
1.9d
|
2.5
|
3.7
|
Liberia |
. .
|
. .
|
(7.5)
|
| USA |
4.8
|
5.8
|
3.4
|
Yemen |
10.0
|
. .
|
7.1
|
| France |
5.8
|
7.2
|
2.5
|
Syria |
4.1
|
1.6
|
[6.1]
|
| UK |
4.5d
|
5.9
|
2.4
|
Ethiopia |
4.8
|
1.8
|
5.2
|
| Taiwan |
. .
|
. .
|
2.3
|
Turkey |
3.5
|
3.6
|
4.9
|
| Averageg |
4.6
|
4.8
|
4.7
|
4.9
|
2.8
|
9.7
|
|
|
Countries with the lowest military burden in 2002
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| Iceland |
5.9
|
7.5
|
0.0
|
Costa Rica |
4.4
|
4.4
|
0.0
|
| Ireland |
4.4
|
5.1
|
0.7
|
Mauritius |
3.7
|
1.9
|
0.2
|
| Austria |
5.8
|
5.6
|
0.8
|
Moldova |
4.0d
|
2.9
|
0.4
|
| Luxembourg |
3.7d
|
5.3
|
0.9
|
Mexico |
4.4d
|
2.5
|
0.5
|
| Japan |
3.5
|
6.0
|
1.0
|
Ghana |
4.1d
|
2.2
|
0.6
|
| New Zealand |
6.1
|
6.2
|
1.1
|
Guatemala |
1.7
|
2.3
|
0.6
|
| Switzerland |
5.5d
|
5.9
|
1.1
|
Cape Verde |
4.4d
|
1.8
|
0.7
|
| Finland |
6.1d
|
5.0
|
1.2
|
Honduras |
4.0d
|
4.3
|
0.8
|
| Spain |
4.5d
|
5.4
|
1.2
|
El Salvador |
2.3d
|
3.8
|
0.8
|
| Slovenia |
. .
|
6.8
|
1.5
|
Georgia |
. .
|
0.7
|
0.9
|
| Averageg |
5.1
|
5.8
|
0.9
|
3.7
|
2.9
|
0.5
|
|
[ ]=SIPRI estimates.
Sources: Education expenditure as a share of GDP for 2000/2001: UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Institute for Statistics Database Access Statistics, table on ‘Public expenditure on education as percentage of GDP’, URL <http://stats.uis.unesco.org/eng/TableViewer/wdsview/dispviewp.asp>; education shares for 1998-2000 and health shares: UN Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2003 (Oxford University Press: New York, 2003), annex table 17, ‘Priorities in public spending’; and military expenditure shares: SIPRI Yearbook 2004 – Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004) appendix 10A, table 10A.4.
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