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Table 1 Trends in public health and military spending among countries with high military spending (>10% of public expenditure), years 2008–2010

From: Crowd-out of defence and health spending: is Israel different from other industrialised nations?

Country Military spending as a percentage of total public expenditure Military spending as a percentage of GDP Public health spending as a percentage of total public expenditure Public health spending as a percentage of GDP Real change in spending between 2008 and 2010
  Military Health
Turkey 10.1 2.3 12.8 4.4 −0.7 120.5
Republic of Korea 13.6 2.8 11.9 3.6 −7.1 287.4
Israel 17.0 7.1 10.2 4.5 −153.8 113.3
Chile 18.0 3.3 15.6 3.3 −35.1 104.8
United States 18.8 4.4 19.4 7.6 148.4 642.1
Azerbaijan 22.1 3.3 3.1 0.8 −24.6 193.0
Georgia 29.3 8.5 4.8 1.8 −108.2 82.0
  1. Source: World Bank World Development Indicators 2013 Edition.