Defense Spending in Asia-Pacific - Market Summary, Competitive Analysis and Forecast to 2025

Key Highlights

• Defense spending covers capital items, military personnel, government defense agencies, and related expenditure on defense and peacekeeping. The value of the market is taken to include both current and capital expenditure on the armed forces, including funding contributions to peacekeeping forces, such as the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects, paramilitary forces (when judged to be trained and equipped for military operations) and military space activities. Expenditure on personnel (including salaries and social services of both military and civil personnel, and retirement pensions of military personnel), procurement, research and development, infrastructure spending, military aid (taken as expenditure by the donor country) and general operations and maintenance are also included. Note that current expenditure on previous military activity such as veterans' benefits, weapon destruction, demobilization, and defense conversion are all excluded, as is expenditure on civil defense.
• The Asia-Pacific defense spending market had total budget allocation of $497.8bn in 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.8% between 2016 and 2020.
• Market consumption volumes declined with a compound annual rate of change (CARC) of -1.1% between 2016 and 2020, to reach a total of 7.2 million active serving personnel in 2020.
• Economic growth has facilitated spending on defense, which has been further driven by geopolitical instability in the region.

Scope

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