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A fact from List of countries with highest military expenditures appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 September 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/September.

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Why just Top 15?

Seems like a very arbitrary number. Those lists should be expanded for all countries, where data is available. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

North Korea estimates

Should really mention NK estimates which would place it on the top... --166.104.240.87 (talk) 03:45, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Data from Global Peace Index on military expenditure

Would be helpful, see [1] --166.104.240.87 (talk) 03:48, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Updated Military budget 2016

Uk -http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_budget

India -http://www.defencenews.in/article/Indias-Defence-Budget-Hiked-by-10-percent--Crosses-$50-billion-3205

Japan - http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/japan-approves-record-defense-budget/

France -http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2015/10/02/France-to-increase-defense-spending-in-2016/4561443814370/

Russia -http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/russias-military-spending-to-increase-modestly-in-2016/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.184.187.193 (talk) 07:13, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of IISS Figures

The IISS figures which purport to show expenditure figures actually show budget figures (see here and compare: https://www.iiss.org/-/media//images/publications/the%20military%20balance/milbal2016/mb%202016%20top%2015%20defence%20budgets%202015.jpg?la=en). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought budget and expenditure were two different things? A budget is the total amount of money a country has allocated to spend, whilst expenditure is what it actually spent. They're two different things.

I recommend we move the IISS figures to a new article on budgets and only use the SIPRI expenditure figures for this one. --TheArmchairSoldier (talk) 16:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tables don't sort on rank correctly

I have no idea how to fix this, but the tables don't sort correctly when they sort by rank. They're sorting on the first digit rather than the whole number, so it goes 1, 10, 11, 12...19, 2, 20, 3, 4 etc. 86.8.22.13 (talk) 23:35, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]