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          Russian T-90 tanks on the Red Square in Moscow
     

 
                                              

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

The world military expenditure in 2014 declined for the third year in a row. The decrease of 0.4 percent to 1.78 trillion (1.68 trillion euros) goes to research by the Swedish peace research institute SIPRI mainly due to reductions in Western Europe, North and South America. The countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, however, give more and more money for their armed forces.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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China increased its military spending over the past ten years by 167 percent, Saudi Arabia 112 percent and Russia by 97 percent. Last year alone, Moscow raised its investment in weapons and equipment by 8.1 percent, but was surpassed by the Ukraine, with an increase of 23 percent.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Germany withdrew in 2014 further from the NATO goal of spending two percent of gross domestic product on defense. The proportion decreased from 1.3 to 1.2 percent. Eight place in the world ranking of armor investors remained Germany retained.

                         
         
         
                                                             

America has made a third of the global arms investments despite cuts of 6.5 percent in 2014. 610 billion dollars Americans spend seven times as much money on its military, such as Russia.

                                 

 
  

 
 
 
                       

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