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Defence spending
Annual expenditure allocated to maintaining, renewing, replacing and expanding military capability
Distribution of Asia Power Index countries
This chart shows the distribution of countries based on their weighted score for defence spending.
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Defence spending
Annual expenditure allocated to maintaining, renewing, replacing and expanding military capability
Rankings
Indicators
Rank
Score
Trend
Country / Territory
Weighting 20%
1
100.0
—
United States
2
42.3
China
3
12.7
Russia
4
12.2
India
5
7.2
—
Japan
6
6.7
—
South Korea
7
4.1
—
Australia
8
2.5
—
Taiwan
9
2.4
—
Pakistan
10
+1
2.0
—
Indonesia
11
−1
1.9
—
Singapore
12
1.6
—
Thailand
13
1.3
—
Vietnam
14
1.0
—
Malaysia
15
0.9
—
Myanmar
16
+1
0.8
—
Philippines
17
−1
0.7
—
North Korea
18
+1
0.7
—
Bangladesh
19
−1
0.6
—
Sri Lanka
20
0.3
—
New Zealand
21
0.2
—
Nepal
22
+1
0.1
—
Cambodia
23
−1
0.1
—
Brunei
24
0.0
—
Mongolia
25
0.0
—
Papua New Guinea
26
0.0
—
Laos
Dataset
2020
Economic capability
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