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The defence budget of India was increased to ₹ 621,940 crore (US$73 billion) in the 2024-2025 union budget from ₹ 593,538 crore (US$69 billion) during last year. This year’s defence budget accounts for 1.89% of the country’s projected gross domestic product (GDP) for 2024-25. [15]
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 .
A positive (+) number indicates that revenues exceeded expenditures (a budget surplus), while a negative (-) number indicates the reverse (a budget deficit). Normalizing the data, by dividing the budget balance by GDP, enables easy comparisons across countries and indicates whether a national government saves or borrows money.
The UAE had a per capita spending of $2470 per person back in 2014, making it the second highest spender in that year just after Saudi Arabia, [1] but by 2020 that number had fallen to $2204. [ 2 ] Military expenditure per capita spending
As the co-heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are promising to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.
Net interest payments on the national debt exceeded $892 billion in the 2024 fiscal year. The IMF projects that by 2034, annual interest payments in the U.S. will hit $1.7 trillion and cumulative ...
Poland's $35 billion defence bill this year could surpass that of its ex-Communist central European a. Poland's NATO-leading surge in defence spending is raising budget concerns because it will ...
The total budget sanctioned for the Indian military for the financial year 2021 is ₹ 4.78 lakh crore (equivalent to ₹ 5.6 trillion or US$66 billion in 2023). [3] [4] It has the third largest annual defence budget behind USA (US$732 billion) and China (US$261 billion). It is the second largest defence importer behind Saudi Arabia making up 9 ...