Asia Power Index
2024 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
Weighting 10%
1
85.1
—
United States
2
62.8
—
Australia
3
58.3
Japan
4
39.3
South Korea
5
29.3
Singapore
6
27.7
New Zealand
7
23.6
—
China
8
+5
19.1
Indonesia
9
−1
19.0
India
10
−1
18.9
Philippines
11
−1
18.4
Russia
12
16.7
Thailand
13
+1
16.5
Pakistan
14
−3
16.0
Malaysia
15
+1
11.0
Taiwan
16
−1
10.7
Vietnam
17
+1
9.9
Cambodia
18
−1
9.0
—
Bangladesh
19
+2
8.3
North Korea
20
−1
7.3
Sri Lanka
21
+2
6.1
Nepal
22
4.6
—
Mongolia
23
−3
4.0
Brunei
24
3.1
Laos
25
+1
1.4
Papua New Guinea
26
−1
0.8
—
Myanmar
27
0.0
—
Timor-Leste
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