World military spending in 2018 amounted to 1, 8 trillion dollars, which is 2, 6% higher than last year, While Russia dropped out of the top five leading countries for this indicator reported in the annual report of the Stockholm international Institute of peace research (SIPRI). according to the study, the world Military spending in 2018 has reached the highest level since 1988, when the Institute began collecting data on the issue. according to estimates by SIPRI, Military spending in total was 2, 1% of global GDP, which is Usually equivalent to 239 dollars per person. Russia's military spending in 2018, according to SIPRI, amounted to 61, $ 4 billion, which is 3, 5% less than last year. Thus, Russia fell in the chart of the Institute on the sixth place. the top five countries with the largest military expenditures in the world were the US, China, Saudi Arabia, India and France, which accounted for 60% of global military spending. for the first time since 2010 U.S. Military expenditures increased by 4, 6% and amounted to 649 billion. According to the Director of weapons Programs and military expenditures SIPRI Od Fleran, " the increase in U.S. military spending was due to the realization in 2017 of the new programmes for the procurement of weapons During the administration of the trump." China's share of world military spending in second place was 14%. With the highest percentage Growth of the fifteen countries with the largest military expenditure in the world goes to Turkey (24%). the report also notes that the increase in military expenditures observed in 2018 in the States of Central and Eastern Europe. According to the senior scientist Program of armaments and military expenditures SIPRI Peter Wezeman, a similar increase " is largely due to increasing perceptions of threats from Russia." The Stockholm international research Institute of peace was established in 1966. SIPRI is an independent think-tank dedicated to research conflict, armaments, surveillance over weapons and disarmament. leader Vladimir Putin in the early winter of 2017 said that the Russian Federation will not get involved in arms race. He said, in 2018 as a percentage of GDP, Military spending will be about 2, 85% and then will decline. Press Secretary of the head of the country Dmitry Peskov in March 2018, 5 years expected to be spent on defence purposes is not more than 3% of GDP. <span style="color:darkgray