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The Center for Homeland and Global Security reports that governments around the world will spend an estimated $550 billion on homeland security in 2003, with that figure to rise to $572 billion by 2005. Nearly $56 billion of the 2003 spending was done by the United States.

While President Bush's Homeland security budget calls for more than $41 billion in spending, the center's total U.S. estimate includes state and local government spending.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Homeland security has seen a 3.91 percent growth rate, compared to .10 percent from 1998-2000.

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