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A fact from List of countries with highest military expenditures appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 September 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at top of the list of countries by military expenditures?

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Australia's defence expenditure

$34.6 billion in 2017–18. https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/minister/marise-payne/media-releases/budget-2017-18-defence-budget-overview The Government will provide Defence with $31.9 billion in 2015–16 and $132.6 billion over the Forward Estimates. http://www.defence.gov.au/Budget/15-16/

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NATO countries agreed to spend at least 2 percent of gdp, worth noting in the article

NATO countries agreed to spend at least 2 percent of gdp, worth noting in the article 46.116.97.103 (talk) 12:57, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New user list

As many users would like to update the military budgets on an ongoing basis, but the existing lists are databases that reflect military spending and cannot be changed, I suggest a user list in which the current military budgets can be updated. This has the advantage that you always have up-to-date data. I have already created one, but it can be further refined and updated. I think it's a good idea and you should perhaps test it out now. Slim Nesbit (talk) 14:55, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ISS numbers format makes unsortable

I see either an epsilon ("ε") or "PPP ε" before several numbers (UK, China, Russia), which makes the list impossible to sort by spending. Do others see this (I tried several browsers), and if so, is there a reason for it? I don't understand the numbering format enough to edit it, but am quite sure someone does! Perhaps the best solution would be another column that shows whether PPP is used (and whatever the epsilon means). Thanks in advance! Ekpyros (talk) 18:36, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding others entities

we should add other entities for comparison purposes like various military alliances.

They should not be ranked (-) but listed. 93.140.141.118 (talk) 21:53, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]