{"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":"
As Graeme Dobell’s account<\/a> of Defence Minister Stephen Smith’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 The data is shown in the table, reproduced from Mark Thomson’s 2012\u201313 Cost of Defence report<\/a> (page 26).<\/p>\n The average from 2001\u201302 to this year is, as advertised, 1.763%.<\/p>\n (Click table to enlarge.)<\/p>\n Sources: 2012-13 Budget Overview<\/a>, 2012-13 Defence Portfolio Budget Statements<\/a> and earlier Defence Annual Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Andrew Davies is senior analyst for defence capability at ASPI and executive editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Strategist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Graeme Dobell’s account of Defence Minister Stephen Smith’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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,26,208],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-budget","tag-defence-spending","tag-graph"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a><\/p>\n