BY Oluseyi Awojulugbe
Manchester City, an English football club, has spent more money on buying defenders for the team than 52 countries have spent on national security in 2017.
In total, Man City, as the club is popularly called, has spent $287.3 million including their latest signing of Aymeric Laporte.
Using data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), a think tank dedicated to research into conflict and disarmament, iNews UK reported that Laporte’s signing fee was higher than the defence budget of El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, Senegal, Chad and Guatemala.
| Country | Defence budget |
|---|---|
| Guatemala | $271.2 million |
| Chad | $267.4 million |
| Senegal | $254 million |
| Trinidad & Tobago | $236.2 million |
| El Salvador | $232.6 million |
| Kyrgyzstan | $206.5 million |
| Gabon | $202.8 million |
| Afghanistan | $173.6 million |
| Niger | $166.2 million |
| Bosnia-Herzegonia | $164.5 million |
| Guinea | $161.9 million |
| Ghana | $161.8 million |
| Burkina Faso | $149.5 million |
| Albania | $146.6 million |
| South Sudan | $137.5 million |
| Mauritania | $136.1 million |
| Jamaica | $118.4 million |
| Cuba | $118.4 million |
| Mozambique | $112.2 million |
| Macedonia, FYR | $106 million |
| Mongolia | $101.9 million |
| Rwanda | $101 million |
| Benin | $98.1 million |
| Tajikistan | $95.8 million |
| Togo | $82 million |
| Papua New Guinea | $81.9 million |
| Nicaragua | $72.6 million |
| Swaziland | $67.3 million |
| Montenegro | $67.2 million |
| Burundi | $66.5 million |
| Madagascar | $59.3 million |
| Malta | $57.5 million |
| Kosovo | $51.9 million |
| Central African Republic | $51.6 million |
| Guyana | $48.9 million |
| Fiji | $45.2 million |
| Lesotho | $40.7 million |
| Djibouti | $36.3 million |
| Malawi | $33.6 million |
| Moldova | $29.7 million |
| Sierra Leone | $26.8 million |
| Timor Leste | $26.2 million |
| Mauritius | $23 million |
| Laos | $22.7 million |
| Belize | $20.6 million |
| Seychelles | $18.4 million |
| Equatorial Guinea | $18.2 million |
| Iceland | $17.4 million |
| Guinea-Bissau | $17 million |
| Gambia | $14.3 million |
| Liberia | $12.3 million |
| Cape Verde | $10.2 million |
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