Last year it spent 3.6 % of its GDP on defence, the highest ratio of any NATO member (and the highest
total military budget in the world by a hefty margin).
Not exact matches
In fiscal 1995 the
total federal operating
budget for the CPB is $ 286 million, while $ 200 million yearly is allocated to
military bands.
And this Al - Monitor (a media site focused on Middle East which was accused of following «the agenda of the Iranian and Syrian governments and Hezbollah») article details a bit more the
military budget and the growing trend of Iran's
military spendings, although it does not state the current
total defense
budget and its numbers are considerably lower than SIPRI's for the past years, maybe because the fiscal year used in this article begins near 20th March:
Under Bush, the
military share has climbed to 57 percent of the
total and is
budgeted for further growth.
A large segment of the U.S. 2006
military budget of $ 492 billion, accounting for half of the world
total, goes to the development and production of new weapon systems.