A report conducted by a nongovernmental organization that monitors global conflicts revealed that, while the total spending on military in the entire declined for the second straight year in 2013, African and Middle Eastern countries have steadily increased its military spending.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released the study Sunday, which stated that most of the global decline in military spending was because of the U.S. and many other Western nations had reduced its defense budgets.

However, outside of Western nations, according to the report, military spending grew by 1.8 percent last year, making the worldwide total about $1.7 trillion, Al Jazeera America reported.

Sam Perlo-Freeman, an author of the report, said in a news release that developing nations have continued to increase its military spending.

"The increase in military spending in emerging and developing countries continues unabated," Perlo-Freeman said.

The U.S. reduced its military spending by 7.8 percent in 2013 to $630 billion after years of spending during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, according to Al Jazeera.

The U.S. began cutting military funds across the board last year after a Congressional decision to reduce spending. The decline in military spending by the U.S. still ranks as the highest in the world and even with continuing reductions this year, the budget is expected to exceed $500 million.

According to the peace institute's report, the federal government's $630 billion on military funding equaled the following nine countries' expenditures combined. It also accounted for 37 percent of the global aggregate military spending.

China came in second place with its military expenses representing 11 percent of the global spending while Russia, sitting in third place, made up 5 percent, Al Jazeera reported.

African countries increased its military spending by 8.3 percent to nearly $45 billion, with a quarter of it coming from Algeria.

The report stated that Algeria has steadily become more militarized because of a "desire for regional power status, the powerful role of the military, the threat of terrorism -- including armed Islamist groups in neighboring Mali -- and the ready availability of oil funds."

Middle Eastern nations experienced a 4 percent increase to $150 billion last year. Iraq, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were the countries that spent the most on its military. Afghanistan, however, had the biggest increase in military spending as it jumped 77 percent, according to the SIPRI report.

"While in some cases it is the natural result of economic growth or a response to genuine security needs, in other cases it represents a squandering of natural resource revenues, the dominance of autocratic regimes, or emerging regional arms races," Perlo-Freeman said.