28 % of the budget is spent on defense.
what percentage of the budget is spent on defense?
28 %
the request for 2017 amounts to $48.8 billion. the system has 9.4 million beneficiaries, including active, retired, and eligible reserve component military personnel and their families, and dependent survivors.









































section::::previous budgets.:budget by year.









































the following is historical spending on defense from 1996–2015, spending for 2014–15 is estimated. the defense budget is shown in billions of dollars and total budget in trillions of dollars. the percentage of the total u.s. federal budget spent on defense is indicated in the third row, and change in defense spending from the previous year in the final row.









































section::::support service contractors.
military budget of the united states
for fy 2017, department of defense spending amounts to 3.1% of gdp. because the u.s. gdp has grown over time, the military budget can rise in absolute terms while shrinking as a percentage of the gdp. for example, the department of defense budget was slated to be $664 billion in 2010 (including the cost of operations in iraq and afghanistan previously funded through supplementary budget legislation), higher than at any other point in american history, but still 1.1–1.4% lower as a percentage of gdp than the amount spent on military during the peak of cold-war military spending in the late 1980s. admiral mike mullen, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has called four percent an "absolute floor". this calculation does not take into account some other military-related non-dod spending, such as veterans affairs, homeland security, and interest paid on debt incurred in past wars, which has increased even as a percentage of the national gdp.
military budget of the united states