claim: the u.s. "only ranks 25th worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of gdp."
author: sarah palin
evidence_1: this article is a list of countries by military expenditure in a given year. military  expenditure figures are presented in united states dollars based on either  constant or current exchange rates. these results can vary greatly from one year  to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of each country's currency .
evidence_2: jun 25, 2015 ... no country worldwide comes close to matching the united states in military  expenditure. in 2014, us military spending reached $571 billion, a huge distance  ahead of second placed china's $129.4 billion. however, when military budgets  are viewed as a percentage of a nation's gdp, things become very ...
evidence_3: 3.7. united arab emirates. united kingdom. 6.3. 1.8. united states. 8.4. 3.3.  uruguay. 1.9. uzbekistan. vanuatu. venezuela, rb. 2.7. vietnam. 2.4. virgin  islands (u.s.). west bank and gaza. yemen, rep. zambia. 1.5. zimbabwe. 2.2.  world. 6.0. 2.2. arab world. 4.6. 6.2. caribbean small states. central europe and  the baltics.
evidence_4: military expenditures compares spending on defense programs for the most  recent year available as a percent of gross domestic product (gdp; calculated on  an exchange rate basis). download. rank, country, (% of gdp), date of  information. 1, south sudan, 10.32, 2012. 2, iraq, 8.70, 2014. 3, oman, 8.61,  2012. 4, saudi ...
evidence_5: sep 18, 2011 ... this does not deter its proponents: sarah palin has endorsed this view, once  incredulously asking supporters if they knew “the u.s. actually only ranks 25th  worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of gdp?” at face value, this  statistic is troubling: how can we be assured of america's safety if our ...