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This is a list of countries by military expenditures using the latest information available. Some of the information is from the United States' Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook. Note that for some countries, no information was available to the World Factbook's compilers; these countries were omitted from the list. Consequently, the total world expenditure on armed forces is likely to be much higher than that given. Comparisons between figures in this table should be used with caution. There are comparison issues inherent with these figures for example France and Italy include in their defence expenditures the costs of maintaining the Gendarmerie and Carabinieri, both of which are mainly used as domestic police forces. On the other hand some countries account military expenses under other budget voices for example China and Russia categorize spending on nuclear weapons, missile and fighter development as scientific expenses, spending on training are categorized under the education budget, and veteran pensions are afforded by welfare budget. This is a list of the fifteen countries with the highest defence budgets for the year 2006. The information is the most up-to-date from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,[34] which is used to calculate defence spending by the British Ministry of Defence and many other government ministries in the European Union. Total World spending amounted to $1.158 trillion in 2006, with about half of the total amount spent by the United States.
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