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title: "5 countries with biggest defence budgets"  
description: "Here's a list of the top 5 countries in the SIPRI world military expenditure 2021 as per its respective figures and percentage of global share"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-28  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1430/5-countries-with-biggest-defence-budgets  
category: "defence"  
tags: ["Countries", "defence", "biggest defence", "defence budget"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# 5 countries with biggest defence budgets

![5 countries with biggest defence budgets](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/c2088816-b2bd-4f01-98c2-791a8186193b/images/6c385f26-b86e-47f5-aa99-456e588a423f.jpeg) ![5 countries with biggest defence budgets](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/c2088816-b2bd-4f01-98c2-791a8186193b/images/452682a9-df2c-4227-b5dc-21ae4f74465b.jpeg) The US ($801 billion, accounting for 30%) ![5 countries with biggest defence budgets](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/c2088816-b2bd-4f01-98c2-791a8186193b/images/f1cbb633-dcfc-4930-b9b5-6b6e89eedc7d.jpeg) China ($292 billion, accounting for 14%) ![5 countries with biggest defence budgets](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/c2088816-b2bd-4f01-98c2-791a8186193b/images/c0e34a28-dc82-434a-8df3-7a5520ce7dbc.jpeg) India ($76.6 billion, accounting for 3.6%) ![5 countries with biggest defence budgets](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/c2088816-b2bd-4f01-98c2-791a8186193b/images/49fdfe66-7af3-4091-b1ef-fa194e599b44.jpeg) The UK ($68.4 billion, accounting for 3.2%) ![5 countries with biggest defence budgets](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/c2088816-b2bd-4f01-98c2-791a8186193b/images/e86d9588-1fb4-4649-9554-6109ca01f911.jpeg) Russia ($65.9 billion, accounting for 3.1%)

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