List of countries by Global Militarization Index

This is a list of countries by Global Militarization Index based on Bonn International Center for Conversion in 2010.

Global Militarization Index
The Global Militarization Index (GMI) depicts the relative weight and importance of the military apparatus of one state in relation to its society as a whole. For this, the GMI records a number of indicators to represent the degree of militarization of a country:
 * comparison of military expenditure with its gross domestic product (GDP);
 * comparison of military expenditure with its health expenditure;
 * contrast between the total number of (para)military forces with the number of physicians, and the overall population;
 * ratio of the number of heavy weapons available and the overall population.

Note: there is no reliable data on military spending, number of armed forces, and number of heavy weapons systems on North Korea. This makes a calculation of its level of militarization impossible.