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India spending less than Pak, China on arms: Report - The Indian Express
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28 September 1997
Title: India spending less than Pak, China on arms: Report
Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: September 28, 1997
India's military expenditure is incredibly low by any standards despite a
huge frontier the country has to defend, a US agency has said.
Despite the fact that India has to defend the huge frontier on land, at sea
and in the air, including the border with Pakistan, across the Line of
Control in Kashmir and the Chinese border, its military expenditure is
incredibly low m comparison to Pakistan and China, the latest figures of
the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) revealed recently.
According to the agency, the Pakistani military expenditure per capita in
1995 was $ 30, China's $ 53 and India's only $ 8.
China's total military expenditure, according to the ACDA, was $ 63.51
billion. It does not accept the official Chinese figure of about $ 8
billion. India's military expenditure in 1995 was $ 7.831 billion and
Pakistan's $ 3.74 billion. China's armed forces in 1995 numbered 2.93
million against India's 1.265 million and Pakistan's 587,000.
In terms of total worldwide military expenditure, India ranked 18th and
Pakistan 30th. China ranked 3rd, after the US and Russia.
Bangladesh Army with 115,000 personnel is the 38th largest in the world and
estimated expenditure is $ 502 million. Sri Lanka's armed forces in 1995
numbered 110,000 with estimated expenditure of $ 585 million. Pakistan had
4.6 soldiers per 1,000 of its population in 1995, India 1.4 and mainland
China 2.5.
In terms of expenditure per soldier, the highest expenditure is in Japan -
$ 209,400, followed by Kuwait - $ 174,400, Switzerland - $ 173,600 and USA
- $ 171,500. Pakistan spent $ 6,371, India $ 6,190 and China $ 21,680.
The publication analyses the military expenditure in South Asia separately.
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