HIGHEST BUDGET SPACE AGENCIES

The budgets listed are the official budgets from the different space agencies' homepages. Note that the Chinese budget of $500 million is from official figures by Luo Ge, vice administrator of the China National Space Administration. The budget is not normalized to the expenses of space research in each country/region, i.e. higher budget does not mean more activity or better performance in space exploration. Avatapoint no longer updates this data as of 2008. A future proposed design is underconstuction and waiting for committe review before new data will be added.

Country	Agency	Budget
United States	NASA	$17.3 billion
	ESA (European Space Agency)	$4.58 billion
France	CNES (French Space Agency)	$2.49 billion
Japan	JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)	$2.1 billion
Italy	ASI (Italian Space Agency)	$1.55billion
Russia	RKA (Russian Federal Space Agency)	$1.4 billion
Germany	DLR (German Aerospace Center)	$1.242 billion
India	ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization)	$815 million
China	CNSA (Chinese National Space Administration)	$500 million
United Kingdom	BNSC (British National Space Centre)	$414 million [17]
Canada	CSA (Canadian Space Agency)	$321 million
Ukraine	NSAU (National Space Agency of Ukraine)	$250-300 million
Belgium	Belgian science policy and space policy	$230 million
Brazil	AEB (Brazilian Space Agency)	$219 million [18]
Spain	CDTI (Spanish Space Agency)	$175 million
Netherlands	SRON (Netherlands Institute for Space Research)	$160 million
South Korea	KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)	$150 million
Switzerland	SSO (Swiss Space Office)	$110 million
Sweden	SNSB (Swedish National Space Board)	$100 million
	Space Agency (Total of Listed Budget)	$31.8 billion