‘China stands out as the only major spender in the world not to increase its military burden in 2020 despite increasing its military expenditure, because of its positive GDP growth last year,’ said Dr Nan Tian, SIPRI Senior Researcher.
US MILITARY BUDGET PERCENTAGE SERIES
China’s spending has risen for 26 consecutive years, the longest series of uninterrupted increases by any country in the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database. This represents an increase of 1.9 per cent over 2019 and 76 per cent over the decade 2011–20. ‘This reflects growing concerns over perceived threats from strategic competitors such as China and Russia, as well as the Trump administration’s drive to bolster what it saw as a depleted US military.’Ĭhina’s military expenditure rises for 26th consecutive yearĬhina’s military expenditure, the second highest in the world, is estimated to have totalled $252 billion in 2020. ‘The recent increases in US military spending can be primarily attributed to heavy investment in research and development, and several long-term projects such as modernizing the US nuclear arsenal and large-scale arms procurement,’ said Alexandra Marksteiner, a researcher with SIPRI’s Arms and Military Expenditure Programme. This was the third consecutive year of growth in US military spending, following seven years of continuous reductions. As the world’s largest military spender, the USA accounted for 39 per cent of total military expenditure in 2020.
In 2020 US military expenditure reached an estimated $778 billion, representing an increase of 4.4 per cent over 2019. Strong increase in US military spending continues in 2020 ‘It remains to be seen whether countries will maintain this level of military spending through a second year of the pandemic.’ ‘We can say with some certainty that the pandemic did not have a significant impact on global military spending in 2020,’ said Dr Diego Lopes da Silva, Researcher with the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Programme. Several others, including Brazil and Russia, spent considerably less than their initial military budgets for 2020. This was the biggest year-on-year rise in the military burden since the global financial and economic crisis in 2009.Įven though military spending rose globally, some countries explicitly reallocated part of their planned military spending to pandemic response, such as Chile and South Korea. As a result, military spending as a share of GDP-the military burden-reached a global average of 2.4 per cent in 2020, up from 2.2 per cent in 2019. The 2.6 per cent increase in world military spending came in a year when global gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 4.4 per cent (October 2020 projection by the International Monetary Fund), largely due to the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Military expenditure increases in the first year of the pandemic Military spending by China grew for the 26th consecutive year. The five biggest spenders in 2020, which together accounted for 62 per cent of global military expenditure, were the United States, China, India, Russia and the United Kingdom. (Stockholm, 26 April 2021) Total global military expenditure rose to $1981 billion last year, an increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms from 2019, according to new data published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). World military spending rises to almost $2 trillion in 2020
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