The CIA World Factbook Edition 1996 Communications

Military expenditures In 25 editions of 36.

Military expenditures was published in 25 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1996 edition carries it in 192 entries, in its Communications section, under the heading “Defense expenditures”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 1996 edition
192
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Military expenditures” (2008 to 2025) and “Defense expenditures” (1990 to 1996).

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World

1 entry

World

probably a small decline in 1995 in aggregate real expenditure on arms worldwide and somewhat less than three-quarters of a trillion dollars in money terms, or roughly 2% of gross world product (1995 est.)

Africa

53 entries

Algeria

  • exchange rate conversion - $1.3 billion, 2.7% of GDP (1994)

Angola

  • exchange rate conversion - $1.1 billion, 31% of GDP (1993)

Benin

  • exchange rate conversion - $33 million, 3.2% of GDP (1994)

Botswana

exchange rate conversion - $199 million, 5.2% of GDP (FY93/94)

Burkina Faso

  • exchange rate conversion - $104 million, 6.4% of GDP (1994)

Burundi

  • exchange rate conversion - $25 million, 2.6% of GDP (1993)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

  • exchange rate conversion - $3.4 million, NA% of GDP (1994)

Cameroon

exchange rate conversion - $102 million, NA% of GDP (FY93/94)

Central African Republic

  • exchange rate conversion - $30 million, 2.3% of GDP (1994)

Chad

  • exchange rate conversion - $74 million, 11.1% of GDP (1994)

Comoros

$NA, NA% of GDP

Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • exchange rate conversion - $46 million, 1.5% of GDP (1990)

Congo now Republic of the Congo

  • exchange rate conversion - $110 million, 3.8% of GDP (1993)

Cote d'Ivoire

  • exchange rate conversion - $140 million, 1.4% of GDP (1993)

Djibouti

  • exchange rate conversion - $26 million, NA% of GDP (1989)

Egypt

exchange rate conversion - $3.5 billion, 8.2% of GDP (FY94/95 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

exchange rate conversion - $2.5 million, NA% of GDP (FY93/94)

Eritrea

$NA, NA% of GDP

Swaziland now Eswatini

exchange rate conversion - $22 million, NA% of GDP (FY93/94)

Ethiopia

exchange rate conversion - $140 million, 4.1% of GDP (FY93/94)

Gabon

  • exchange rate conversion - $154 million, 2.4% of GDP (1993)

The Gambia

exchange rate conversion - $14 million, 3.8% of GDP (FY93/94)

Ghana

  • exchange rate conversion - $30 million, 0.8% of GDP (1994)

Guinea

  • exchange rate conversion - $50 million, 1.6% of GDP (1994)

Guinea-Bissau

  • exchange rate conversion - $9 million, 4.5% of GDP (1994)

Lesotho

$NA, NA% of GDP

Liberia

  • exchange rate conversion - $14 million, 2.9% of GDP (1993)

Libya

  • exchange rate conversion - $1.4 billion, 6.1% of GDP (1994 est.)

Madagascar

  • exchange rate conversion - $29 million, 1.0% of GDP (1994)

Malawi

exchange rate conversion - $10.4 million, NA% of GDP (FY94/95)

Mali

  • exchange rate conversion - $66 million, 2.2% of GDP (1994)

Mauritania

  • exchange rate conversion - $33 million, 2.5% of GDP (1995)

Mauritius

exchange rate conversion - $11.2 million, 0.4% of GDP (FY92/93)

Morocco

  • exchange rate conversion - $1.38 billion, 4.1% of GDP (1995)

Mozambique

  • exchange rate conversion - $84 million, 5.3% of GDP (1994)

Namibia

exchange rate conversion - $64 million, 2.1% of GDP (FY95/96)

Niger

exchange rate conversion - $32 million, 1.3% of GDP (FY92/93)

Nigeria

  • exchange rate conversion - $172 million, about 1% of GDP (1992)

Rwanda

  • exchange rate conversion - $112.5 million, 7% of GDP (1992)

Sao Tome and Principe

$NA, NA% of GDP

Senegal

  • exchange rate conversion - $82 million, 2.1% of GDP (1996 est.)

Seychelles

$NA, NA% of GDP

Sierra Leone

exchange rate conversion - $14 million, 2.6% of GDP (FY92/93)

Somalia

$NA, NA% of GDP

South Africa

exchange rate conversion - $2.9 billion, 2.2% of GDP (FY95/96)

Sudan

$NA, NA% of GDP

Tanzania

exchange rate conversion - $69 million, NA% of GDP (FY94/95)

Togo

  • exchange rate conversion - $48 million, 2.9% of GDP (1993)

Tunisia

  • exchange rate conversion - $535 million, 2.8% of GDP (1995)

Uganda

exchange rate conversion - $56 million, 1.7% of budget (FY93/94)

Western Sahara

$NA, NA% of GDP

Zambia

  • exchange rate conversion - $96 million, 2.7% of GDP (1995)

Zimbabwe

exchange rate conversion - $236 million, 3.4% of GDP (FY95/96)

Arctic Region

1 entry

Iceland

none

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

$NA, NA% of GDP

Armenia

  • exchange rate conversion - $4.7 billion, 1.5% of GDP (1995)

Azerbaijan

33.5 billion manats, NA% of GDP (1994); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Bangladesh

exchange rate conversion - $481 million, 1.7% of GDP (FY95/96)

Bhutan

$NA, NA% of GDP

China

  • the officially announced but suspect figure is 70.2 billion yuan, NA% of GDP (1995 est.);
  • note - conversion of the defense budget into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Georgia

  • exchange rate conversion - $60 million to $65 million, NA% of GDP (1995)

India

exchange rate conversion - $8.0 billion, 2.7% of GDP (FY95/96)

Japan

exchange rate conversion - $50.2 billion, 1% of GDP (FY95/96)

Kazakstan now Kazakhstan

18.9 billion tenges, NA% of GDP (1995); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Korea, North now North Korea

exchange rate conversion - $5 billion to $7 billion, 25% to 33% of GDP (1995 est.)

Korea, South now South Korea

  • exchange rate conversion - $17.4 billion, 3.3% of GNP (1996)

Kyrgyzstan

151 million soms, NA% of GDP (1995); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Maldives

$NA, NA% of GDP

Mongolia

  • exchange rate conversion - $22.8 million, 1% of GDP (1992)

Nepal

exchange rate conversion - $36 million, 1.2% of GDP (FY92/93)

Pakistan

exchange rate conversion - $3.1 billion, 5.3% of GDP (FY95/96)

Russia

$NA, NA% of GDP

note: the Intelligence Community estimates that defense spending in Russia fell by about 20% in real terms in 1995, reducing Russian defense outlays to about one-fifth of peak Soviet levels in the late 1980s

Sri Lanka

  • exchange rate conversion - $640 million, 4.4% of GDP (1996)

Tajikistan

  • 180 billion rubles, 3.4% of GDP (1995)

Turkmenistan

4.5 billion manats, 3.0% of GDP (1995); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Uzbekistan

164 million soms, 3.7% of GDP (1993); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Central America and the Caribbean

19 entries

Antigua and Barbuda

exchange rate conversion - $1.4 million, 1% of GDP (FY90/91)

The Bahamas

exchange rate conversion - $20 million, 3.8% of GDP (FY95/96)

Barbados

$NA, NA% of GDP

Belize

exchange rate conversion - $8.1 million, NA% of GDP (FY95/96)

Costa Rica

  • exchange rate conversion - $55 million, 2.0% of GDP (1995)

Cuba

  • exchange rate conversion - $NA, roughly 4% of GDP (1995 est.)

Dominica

$NA, NA% of GDP

Dominican Republic

  • exchange rate conversion - $116 million, 1.4% of GDP (1994)

El Salvador

  • exchange rate conversion - $100 million, 1% of GDP (1995)

Grenada

$NA, NA% of GDP

Haiti

$NA, NA% of GDP

Honduras

  • exchange rate conversion - $41 million, about 0.4% of GDP (1994)

Jamaica

exchange rate conversion - $30 million, NA% of GDP (FY95/96)

Nicaragua

  • exchange rate conversion - $28.1 million, NA% of GDP (1996)

Panama

exchange rate conversion - $78 million, NA% of GDP (1995); note - for police and security forces

Saint Kitts and Nevis

$NA, NA% of GDP

Saint Lucia

exchange rate conversion - $5.0 million, 2.0% of GDP (1991); note - for police forces

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

$NA, NA% of GDP

Trinidad and Tobago

  • exchange rate conversion - $83 million, NA% of GDP (1994)

Europe

38 entries

Albania

  • exchange rate conversion - $45 million, 2.5% of GDP (1995)

Austria

  • exchange rate conversion - $2.1 billion, 1.0% of GDP (1995)

Belarus

892 billion rubels, 1% of GDP (1995); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Belgium

  • exchange rate conversion - $4.6 billion, 1.7% of GDP (1995)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

$NA, NA% of GDP

Bulgaria

  • exchange rate conversion - $352 million, 2.5% of GDP (1995)

Croatia

  • 337 billion to 393 billion dinars, NA% of GDP (1993 est.);
  • note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Czech Republic now Czechia

  • exchange rate conversion - $931 million, 2.5% of GDP (1995)

Denmark

  • exchange rate conversion - $3.2 billion, 1.8% of GDP (1995)

Estonia

  • exchange rate conversion - $35 million, 1.5% of GDP (1995)

Faroe Islands

$NA, NA% of GDP

Finland

  • exchange rate conversion - $1.9 billion, 1.6% of GDP (1995)

France

  • exchange rate conversion - $47.7 billion, 2.5% of GDP (1995)

Germany

  • exchange rate conversion - $42.8 billion, 1.5% of GDP (1995)

Hungary

  • exchange rate conversion - $620 million, 1.7% of GDP (1995)

Ireland

  • exchange rate conversion - $618 million, 1.3% of GDP (1994)

Italy

  • exchange rate conversion - $20.4 billion, 1.9% of GDP (1995)

Latvia

  • 176 million rubles, 3% to 5% of GDP (1994);
  • note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the prevailing exchange rate could produce misleading results

Lithuania

  • exchange rate conversion - $31.7 million, 1% of GDP (1995)

Luxembourg

  • exchange rate conversion - $31.7 million, 1% of GDP (1995)

Malta

  • exchange rate conversion - $66 million, 2.2% of GDP (1994)

Moldova

203 million lei, 2.5% of GDP (1995); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Monaco

203 million lei, 2.5% of GDP (1995); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Netherlands

  • exchange rate conversion - $8.2 billion, 2.1% of GDP (1995)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia

  • 7 billion denars, NA% of GDP (1993 est.);
  • note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Norway

  • exchange rate conversion - $3.7 billion, 2.9% of GDP (1995)

Poland

  • exchange rate conversion - $2.4 billion, 2.4% of GDP (1995)

Portugal

  • exchange rate conversion - $1.9 billion, 2.4% of GDP (1995)

Romania

exchange rate conversion - $885 million, 3.0% of GDP (1995) Original publicaton at http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm (June 17, 1997).

San Marino

  • $3.7 million (1% of GDP) (1992 est.)

Serbia and Montenegro

  • 245 billion dinars, 4% to 6% of GDP (1992 est.);
  • note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Slovakia

  • exchange rate conversion - $430 million, 3.0% of GDP (1995)

Slovenia

  • 13.5 billion tolars, 3.6% of GDP (1995 est.);
  • note - conversion of the military budget into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

Spain

  • exchange rate conversion - $6.3 billion, 1.4% of GDP (1995)

Sweden

exchange rate conversion - $5.8 billion, 2.5% of GDP (FY94/95)

Switzerland

  • exchange rate conversion - $3.74 billion, 1.4% of GDP (1995)

Ukraine

  • 1.35 billion hryvni, less than 2% of GDP (Ukrainian Government's forecast for 1996);
  • note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results

United Kingdom

exchange rate conversion - $35.1 billion, 3.1% of GDP (FY95/96)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

  • exchange rate conversion - $247 million, 5.5% of GDP (1994)

Cyprus

  • exchange rate conversion - $493 million, 5.6% of GDP (1995)

Gaza Strip

$NA, NA% of GDP

Iran

  • according to official Iranian data, Iran in 1994 budgeted 4,377 billion rials and in 1993 spent 2,182 billion rials, including $850 million in hard currency;
  • note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using current exchange rates could produce misleading results

Iraq

$NA, NA% of GDP

Israel

  • exchange rate conversion - $9.2 billion, about 9.8% of GDP (1996)

Jordan

  • exchange rate conversion - $589 million, 8.2% of GDP (1996)

Kuwait

exchange rate conversion - $3.5 billion, 12.8% of GDP (FY95/96)

Lebanon

  • exchange rate conversion - $278 million, 5.5% of GDP (1994)

Oman

  • exchange rate conversion - $1.82 billion, 13.7% of GDP (1996)

Qatar

$NA, NA% of GDP

Saudi Arabia

  • exchange rate conversion - $12.1 billion, 8.5% of GDP (1996)

Syria

exchange rate conversion - $875 million, 8% of GDP (1994 est.); note - based on official budget data that understate actual spending

Turkey now Turkiye

  • exchange rate conversion - $6.0 billion, 4% of GDP (1995);
  • note - figures do not include about $7 billion for the government's counterinsurgency effort against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

United Arab Emirates

  • exchange rate conversion - $1.59 billion, 4.3% of GDP (1994)

West Bank

$NA, NA% of GDP

Yemen

$NA, NA% of GDP

North America

4 entries

Bermuda

$NA, NA% of GDP

Canada

exchange rate conversion - $9.0 billion, 1.6% of GDP (FY95/96)

Mexico

  • exchange rate conversion - $2.24 billion, 0.9% of GDP (1996)

United States

  • $272.2 billion, 3.8% of GDP (1995 est.)

Oceania

12 entries

Australia

exchange rate conversion - $7.3 billion, 2.0% of GDP (FY95/96)

Fiji

  • exchange rate conversion - $28 million, 2.5% of GDP (1995)

Kiribati

$NA, NA% of GDP

Nauru

$NA, NA% of GDP

New Caledonia

$NA, NA% of GDP

New Zealand

exchange rate conversion - $556 million, 1% of GDP (FY93/94)

Palau

$NA, NA% of GDP

Papua New Guinea

  • exchange rate conversion - $40 million, 0.9% of GDP (1995)

Western Samoa now Samoa

$NA, NA% of GDP

Solomon Islands

$NA, NA% of GDP

Tonga

$NA, NA% of GDP

Vanuatu

$NA, NA% of GDP

South America

13 entries

Argentina

  • exchange rate conversion - $4.7 billion, 1.5% of GDP (1995)

Bolivia

  • exchange rate conversion - $145 million; 1.9% of GDP (1996)

Chile

  • exchange rate conversion - $970 million, 2.0% of GDP (1994 est.)

Colombia

  • exchange rate conversion - $2 billion, 2.8% of GDP (1995)

Ecuador

  • exchange rate conversion - $386 million, 2.1% of GDP (1995)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

$NA, NA% of GDP

French Guiana

$NA, NA% of GDP

Guyana

  • exchange rate conversion - $7 million, 1.7% of GDP (1994)

Paraguay

  • exchange rate conversion - $94 million, 0.6% of GDP (1994)

Peru

  • exchange rate conversion - $998 million, 1.6% of GDP (1996)

Suriname

$NA, NA% of GDP

Uruguay

  • exchange rate conversion - $256 million, 1.5% of GDP (1994)

Venezuela

$NA, NA% of GDP

Southeast Asia

12 entries

Brunei

  • exchange rate conversion - $312 million, 6.2% of GDP (1994)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

exchange rate conversion - $135 million, NA% of GDP (FY95/96)

Cambodia

  • exchange rate conversion - $85 million, 1.4% of GDP (1995)

Hong Kong

  • exchange rate conversion - $207 million, 0.2% of GDP (FY92/93);
  • this represents 65% of the total cost of defending the colony, the remainder being paid by the UK

Indonesia

exchange rate conversion - $2.7 billion, 1.4% of GNP (FY95/96)

Laos

exchange rate conversion - $105 million, 8.1% of GDP (FY92/93)

Malaysia

  • exchange rate conversion - $2.4 billion, 2.9% of GDP (1995)

Philippines

  • exchange rate conversion - $1 billion, 1.4% of GDP (1995)

Singapore

  • exchange rate conversion - $3.9 billion, 4.3% of GDP (1995 est.)

Taiwan

exchange rate conversion - $11.5 billion, 3.6% of GDP (FY96/97)

Thailand

exchange rate conversion - $4.0 billion, 2.5% of GDP (FY94/95)

Vietnam

  • exchange rate conversion - $544 million, 2.7% of GDP (1995)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1996, “Military expenditures”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/military-expenditures/1996.

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