“SIPRI’s extended dataset of military expenditure of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states is now freely available online, alongside our main military expenditure dataset for all countries. The data, which makes use of NATO data on members’ military spending and other sources, extends back at least to each country’s year of joining…The 15 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2013:

• 1. USA
• 2. China
• 3. Russia
• 4. Saudi Arabia
• 5. France
• 6. United Kingdom
• 7. Germany
• 8. Japan
• 9. India
• 10. South Korea
• 11. Italy
• 12. Brazil
• 13. Australia
• 14. Turkey
• 15. United Arab Emirates