International

The ten countries that have the highest levels
     of militarization are Israel, Singapore,
     Armenia, Cyprus, South Korea, Russia, Greece,
     Jordan, Brunei and Belarus. These countries allocate
     particularly high levels of resources to the military
     in comparison to other areas of society. The same
     countries occupy the top positions in the GMI
     ranking as last year with one exception: Kuwait is in
     position 11, while Belarus now occupies position 10.
     Russia is now in position 6 of the global GMI ranking
     (position 4 previous year). This is due in particular to
     the reduction in its military spending.
     For some other countries, however, we have no
     reliable data with which we could analyze the distribution
     of resources between the military and society
     as a whole. Yet, based on previous surveys, it must be
     assumed that some countries—in particular Syria,
     North Korea and Eritrea—have a very high level of
     militarization.