HC Deb 17 February 1975 vol 886 c262W
Mr. R. C. Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has from international sources of the percentage of gross national product spent on defence by the USSR, the Soviet satellite States, Israel, Egypt, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States of America, respectively.

Mr. Mason

The information, which relates to 1973, except where otherwise specified, is as follows:

Defence Expenditure as a Percentage of Gross National Product at Factor Cost—1973
USSR 8.0
Bulgaria 3.0
Czechoslovakia 5.0
East Germany 6.0
Hungary 3.0
Poland 4.0
Rumania 2.0
*Israel 19.6
*Egypt 23.0
Switzerland 2.4
Sweden 4.0
United States 6.6
(*1972 figures; reliable estimates for 1973 are not yet available).