How much do various countries spend on Defense?
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Australia is spending $16 billion a year on defence at present. The Government has just announced a 3.5% increase per year for the next 10 years, which should lift it to something over $20 billion a year, which is fairly exciting given the paucity of funding for ADF over the years...
Here's a link to the CIA world fact book, it states 169 countries defense budgets.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2067rank.html
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2067rank.html
it'd be nice if we could compile a spending list broken down a little bit. million dollars is not the same worth in UK and in India, for example. Like, braking each figure down to army, navy and air force and then furthermore each of those broken down to salaries and running expenses, modernization and new equipment budgets and finally r&d budgets. Of course, where possible. I do imagine such figures would be pretty hard to come by in some countries but should be available in most western countries on the official websites of their respective depts of defense.
if we all do a country or two we could make a decent databse. i offer to provide data from serbia and from croatia, respectively.
if we all do a country or two we could make a decent databse. i offer to provide data from serbia and from croatia, respectively.
Is a little off-topic, but... I prefer to utilize the figures in millions not in billions (7.416 mill € = Seven thousand, four hundred sixteen millions €). Remember Waylander, in the Castilian (spanish language), the term billion does not means the same thing that in English, to remain sane :loony I prefer to avoid its use while writing in English.Waylander said:
A "Billón" remains in the Castilian as 1.000.000.000.000 = "Millón de millones". We use the term "Millardo" (from the french Milliard) to the 1.000.000.000 = Mil millones.
You know... Spain is different!
Or not... France and Italy use the same system, I think.
Sorry for the off-topic...
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Totoro, most of western countries publish their Defense Budgets itemized to the last Cent. It would be a very hard task itemize all in this forum, message to message, each block or seat of expense. Only the Spanish Defense budget is around 208 pages, and logically in Spanish. Translate dozens of budgets, of hundreds or thousands pages, coping some figures here, still with resummes, cuts and simplifications...Totoro said:
Maybe the figures for the most important chapters or a specific seat of interest?
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it should hit the 1 billion mark this year, don't take the budget Day one at face value, that's the Day to Day operational budget, equipment is not bought with thatmerocaine said:i afraid to check out the irish defence budget, my ego can only take so much.
India's defence expenditure
Here is a break down of India's defence budget. (all figures in Billion US$)
Total - 19.71
Army: 9.40
Navy: 3.60
Air Force: 5.50
R&D :1.20
Capital expenditure as a % of Total Budget - 41% (This is a concern for Ministry of defence. They want to increase it to 60%)
Defence expenditure as % of GDP - 2.4%
currency conversion - I assumed a round figure of 1 US$ = 45 INR
souce - Ministry of Defence Annual report 2006
Man converting all those figures from Crores (10 million) of Rupees to Billions of US$ has given me a headache..time for a coffee.
Here is a break down of India's defence budget. (all figures in Billion US$)
Total - 19.71
Army: 9.40
Navy: 3.60
Air Force: 5.50
R&D :1.20
Capital expenditure as a % of Total Budget - 41% (This is a concern for Ministry of defence. They want to increase it to 60%)
Defence expenditure as % of GDP - 2.4%
currency conversion - I assumed a round figure of 1 US$ = 45 INR
souce - Ministry of Defence Annual report 2006
Man converting all those figures from Crores (10 million) of Rupees to Billions of US$ has given me a headache..time for a coffee.
Here's a estimate of the Swedish Armed Forces budget in billion $ and €!
Total 2005(1,52% of GDP): $5.5 | €4.3
Personel: ?
Material plan 2006-2011: $7.2 | €5.6
Army: ?
Navy/Marine: ?
Air Force: ?
Intelligence: ?
Logistics: ?
Security: ?
Liquidation: ?
Research: ?
As you can see; I don't want to read hundreds of budget documents....
Total 2005(1,52% of GDP): $5.5 | €4.3
Personel: ?
Material plan 2006-2011: $7.2 | €5.6
Army: ?
Navy/Marine: ?
Air Force: ?
Intelligence: ?
Logistics: ?
Security: ?
Liquidation: ?
Research: ?
As you can see; I don't want to read hundreds of budget documents....
Of course that number only goes including retirement funding. Until recently this budget position was separate from the Bundeswehr budget. The actual budget would be something along the lines of 24 to 25 billion Euros. The conservatives are discussing an increase of 500 million euros (excluding logistics/maintenance etc.) in defence spending. I dont know where this money should come from though.Waylander said:Germany has a budget of 27,87 billion €.
And it looks like that the Bundeswehr is bankrupt in the near future.
But it really looks as if the money is coming. Maybe some people in the government started to realise that it is not possible that every new foreign mission is payed by using the normal budget.
And remember the Bundesagentur für Arbeit has a big plus and we also get more money through taxes this year (Ok, maybe not next year )
And remember the Bundesagentur für Arbeit has a big plus and we also get more money through taxes this year (Ok, maybe not next year
)India's 11th 5 year defence outlay (2007-2012)
The Eleventh 5 year plan (2007-2012) for Defence ministry is US$ 145 Billion (give or take couple of billion to cater for exchange rate fluctuation, I assumed an exchange rate of 1US$ = 45 INR). This 2.57% of GDP assuming GDP growth of 8%. Defence ministry had requested for 3% of GDP = US$165 billion. This gap in allocation may hit some new acquisitions. Defence ministry is trying to offset the gap by trying to reduce the revenue component of their budget.
Could some one post the revenue/Capital expenditure of any western defence budget (Germany, Italy, France, Dutch etc.)
The Eleventh 5 year plan (2007-2012) for Defence ministry is US$ 145 Billion (give or take couple of billion to cater for exchange rate fluctuation, I assumed an exchange rate of 1US$ = 45 INR). This 2.57% of GDP assuming GDP growth of 8%. Defence ministry had requested for 3% of GDP = US$165 billion. This gap in allocation may hit some new acquisitions. Defence ministry is trying to offset the gap by trying to reduce the revenue component of their budget.
Could some one post the revenue/Capital expenditure of any western defence budget (Germany, Italy, France, Dutch etc.)