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Beyond Friendship - The Future of Anglo-American Relations - Appendix Two: NATO Defense Expenditure by Country as a Percentage of GDP, 2004 (Based on Constant Prices)
by Robin Harris
May 24, 2006 |
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NATO Defense Expenditure by Country as a Percentage of GDP, 2004 (Based on Constant Prices)



Belgium

1.3

Bulgaria

2.4

Canada

1.2

Czech Republic

1.9

Denmark

1.4

Estonia

1.6

France

2.6

Germany

1.4

Greece

2.9

Hungary

1.5

Italy

1.8

Latvia

1.3

Lithuania

1.5

Luxembourg

0.7

Netherlands

1.6

Norway

1.9

Poland

1.9

Portugal

1.7

Romania

2.1

Slovakia

1.8

Slovenia

1.5

Spain

1.3

Turkey

3.1

United Kingdom

2.3

United States

3.8



Source: NATO–Russia Compendium of Financial and Economic Data Relating to Defence, compiled by Data Analysis Section, Force Planning Directorate, Defence Policy and Planning Division, NATO International Staff, December 2005, p. 7.

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Dr. Robin Harris served during the 1980s as an adviser at the United Kingdom Treasury and Home Office, as Director of the Conservative Party Research Department, and as a member of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street Policy Unit. He continued to advise Lady Thatcher after she left office and has edited the definitive volume of her Collected Speeches. Dr. Harris is now an author and journalist. His Dubrovnik—A History was published by Saqi Books in 2003, and his biography of Talleyrand will be published by John Murray in the spring of 2007.

 
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