Asia Power Index
2025 Edition
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Defence networks
Defence partnerships that act as force multipliers of military capability
This chart shows the distribution of countries based on their weighted score for defence networks.
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Defence networks
Defence partnerships that act as force multipliers of military capability
Rankings
Indicators
rank
score
trend
Country / Territory
Year
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
Weighting 10%
1
81.4
United States
2
62.6
—
Australia
3
56.5
Japan
4
40.5
South Korea
5
+1
30.3
New Zealand
6
−1
26.8
Singapore
7
+4
23.1
Russia
8
−1
18.9
China
9
+1
18.2
Philippines
10
+2
17.6
Thailand
11
−2
16.4
India
12
−4
14.8
Indonesia
13
+1
13.8
Malaysia
14
−1
13.8
Pakistan
15
+1
12.0
Vietnam
16
−1
9.9
Taiwan
17
+2
9.8
North Korea
18
−1
9.4
—
Cambodia
19
−1
5.8
Bangladesh
20
4.6
Sri Lanka
21
+3
4.2
Laos
22
+1
4.0
—
Brunei
23
−2
3.7
Nepal
24
−2
2.5
Mongolia
25
+1
1.2
—
Myanmar
26
−1
0.3
Papua New Guinea
27
0.0
—
Timor-Leste
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