Pakistan Defence Expenditure Comparison

Military expenditure of countries

Rank		Country	Military expenditure in Billions (Approx), 2010	% of GDP, 2009
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1		United States	687	4.7%
2		People's Republic of China	114	2.2%
3		France	61	2.5%
4		United Kingdom	57	2.7%
5		Russia	52	4.3%
6		Japan	51	1.0%
7		Germany	46	1.4%
8		Italy	38	1.8%
9		Turkey	15	2.7%
10		Israel	13	6.3%

Military expenditure of regional countries

Rank		Country	Military expenditure in billion ( Approx), 2010[2]	% of GDP, 2009
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1		Saudi Arabia	42.9	11.2%
2		India	34.8	2.8%
3		United Arab Emirates	15.7	7.3%
4		Iran	7.0	1.8%
5		Pakistan	5.1	2.8%
6		Iraq	4.6	5.4%
7		Kuwait	4.4	4.4%
8		Oman	4.0	9.7%
9		Sri Lanka	1.2	3.5%
10		Yemen	1.2	3.9%
11		Bangladesh	1.1	1.0%
12		Bahrain	0.7	3.7%

 Pakistan defence expenditure amongst the 12 regional countries in terms of % of GDP is at 10^th place and is only ahead of Iran and Bangladesh. So the argument that Pak is spending much on defence seems incorrect.