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 |