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Rank Country Global Militarization Index (GMI) Military Expenditure Index Score People Index Score Heavy Weapons Index Score 1 ... Japan: 68: 0.84: 0.26: 0.77 118
The following lists are of countries by military spending as a share of GDP—more specifically, a list of the 15 countries with the highest share in recent years. The first list uses the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute as a source, while the second list gets its data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies .
As military forces around the world are constantly changing in size, no definitive list can ever be compiled. All of the 172 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers such as the two Koreas and Vietnam , include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel.
Military might is a natural component of geopolitics. While we’re past the point of a world war, realistically speaking, it still helps to safe guard your interests at home and abroad. As such ...
Japan plans to spend 43 trillion yen ($300 billion) through 2027 to bolster its military power and to nearly double its annual spending to around 10 trillion yen ($68 billion), which would make ...
The index uses a number of indicators. [8]Military Expenditure Index Score: comparison of military expenditures with GDP and health care expenditures. People Index Score: contrast between the number of military and paramilitary forces with the overall population and the number of physicians.
Japan's defence ministry on Friday said it will invest in AI, automation and improving troop conditions to address a worsening recruitment shortfall that has left its forces understaffed amid a ...
Figures for the tables below are provided by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) database. They are presented in millions of United States dollars in current prices, converted at the exchange rate for the given year. [1] If there is no data for a particular year, a cell is left blank.