{"id":5539,"date":"2013-04-17T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2013-04-23T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T01:02:28","slug":"table-of-the-week-recent-defence-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/table-of-the-week-recent-defence-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Table of the week \u2013 recent defence budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/vietnam-and-lessons-for-afghanistan-and-the-budget\/\">Graeme Dobell&#8217;s account<\/a> of Defence Minister Stephen Smith&#8217;s speech suggests, there was scepticism in the audience about his claim that the defence budget over the past twelve years averaged out at a little over 1.7% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p>The data is shown in the table, reproduced from Mark Thomson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/publications\/publication_details.aspx?ContentID=339\" target=\"_blank\">2012\u201313 Cost of Defence report<\/a> (page 26).<\/p>\n<p>The average from 2001\u201302 to this year is, as advertised, 1.763%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Table-DefenceSpending.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5541\" title=\"Net Defence funding as a percentage of GDP (click to enlarge).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Table-DefenceSpending.jpg\" alt=\"Net Defence funding as a percentage of GDP\" width=\"1395\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Table-DefenceSpending.jpg 1395w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Table-DefenceSpending-205x38.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Table-DefenceSpending-1024x189.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1395px) 100vw, 1395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click table to enlarge.)<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budget.gov.au\/2012-13\/content\/overview\/html\/overview_28.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2012-13 Budget Overview<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defence.gov.au\/budget\/12-13\/pbs\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2012-13 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements<\/a> and earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defence.gov.au\/annualreports\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Defence Annual Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrew Davies is senior analyst for defence capability at ASPI and executive editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Strategist<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Graeme Dobell&#8217;s account of Defence Minister Stephen Smith&#8217;s speech suggests, there was scepticism in the audience about his claim that the defence budget over the past twelve years averaged out at a little over 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