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Reading no. 2024/058

AdministrationObserved data

Military expenditure as a share of gross domestic product, Indo-Pacific

2.61% of GDP

Indo-Pacific

BruneiSouth KoreaSingaporeIndiaAustraliaVietnamChinaCambodia

Military expenditure as a share of gross domestic product, latest known year of each territory up to 2022: the top ten of eighteen territories of the Indo-Pacific.

  1. Brunei2.61
  2. South Korea2.58
  3. Singapore2.41
  4. India2.38
  5. Australia1.88
  6. Vietnam1.81
  7. China1.63
  8. Cambodia1.54
  9. Timor-Leste1.38
  10. Fiji1.36

The first territory of the ranking, Brunei, devotes 2.61% of its gross domestic product to military expenditure.

Observation

Method

World Bank indicator MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS, read for eighteen territories of the Indo-Pacific from 2018 to 2022. The latest published value of each is kept, then the ten highest are ranked.

Source

Nature

Observed data

Value read at the source and reproduced without processing.

Confidence

Medium

See also

2024/327 · 22 Nov185.0% of GDPExports of goods and services as a share of GDP, Indo-Pacific2024/200 · 18 Jul82.3%Labour force participation of women, Indo-Pacific2026/121 · 1 May84.3%Labour force participation rate, ages 15 and over, Indo-Pacific2025/121 · 1 May84.3%Labour force participation rate, ages 15 and over, Indo-Pacific

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