Asia Power Index
2024 Edition
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Defence resources 2035
Estimated future defence spending and military capability enhancements
This chart shows the distribution of countries based on their weighted score for defence resources 2035.
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Defence resources 2035
Estimated future defence spending and military capability enhancements
Rankings
Indicators
rank
score
trend
Country / Territory
Year
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
Weighting 25%
1
100.0
United States
2
58.1
China
3
34.0
India
4
+1
21.9
Russia
5
−1
6.7
South Korea
6
+1
4.4
Japan
7
+1
4.4
—
Australia
8
+3
4.0
—
Taiwan
9
3.8
—
Indonesia
10
3.7
—
Vietnam
11
−5
3.7
Pakistan
12
+1
2.1
—
Singapore
13
+3
2.0
—
Philippines
14
+1
1.6
—
Malaysia
15
−1
1.6
—
Bangladesh
16
−4
1.5
Thailand
17
+1
1.3
Sri Lanka
18
−1
1.0
—
Myanmar
19
0.3
—
New Zealand
20
0.3
—
Cambodia
21
0.1
—
Nepal
22
+1
0.1
—
Brunei
23
+1
0.1
—
Mongolia
24
+1
0.0
—
Laos
25
−3
0.0
—
North Korea
26
0.0
—
Papua New Guinea
27
0.0
—
Timor-Leste
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Economic resources 2035
Defence resources 2035
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Military expenditure forecast 2035
Military capability enhancement 2024‑35
Broad resources 2035
Demographic resources 2050
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