Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Military expenditure

Military expenditure (current USD)

Definition: Military expenditures data from SIPRI are derived from the NATO definition, which includes all current and capital expenditures on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces; defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects; paramilitary forces, if these are judged to be trained and equipped for military operations; and military space activities. Such expenditures include military and civil personnel, including retirement pensions of military personnel and social services for personnel; operation and maintenance; procurement; military research and development; and military aid (in the military expenditures of the donor country). Excluded are civil defense and current expenditures for previous military activities, such as for veterans' benefits, demobilization, conversion, and destruction of weapons. This definition cannot be applied for all countries, however, since that would require much more detailed information than is available about what is included in military budgets and off-budget military expenditure items. (For example, military budgets might or might not cover civil defense, reserves and auxiliary forces, police and paramilitary forces, dual-purpose forces such as military and civilian police, military grants in kind, pensions for military personnel, and social security contributions paid by one part of government to another).

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.

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Year Value
2014 824,444,400
2015 869,629,600
2016 912,592,600
2017 961,481,500
2018 1,604,444,000

Military expenditure (current LCU)

The value for Military expenditure (current LCU) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 216,600,000,000 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 32 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 216,600,000,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 2,922,000,000 in 1998.

Definition: Military expenditures data from SIPRI are derived from the NATO definition, which includes all current and capital expenditures on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces; defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects; paramilitary forces, if these are judged to be trained and equipped for military operations; and military space activities. Such expenditures include military and civil personnel, including retirement pensions of military personnel and social services for personnel; operation and maintenance; procurement; military research and development; and military aid (in the military expenditures of the donor country). Excluded are civil defense and current expenditures for previous military activities, such as for veterans' benefits, demobilization, conversion, and destruction of weapons. This definition cannot be applied for all countries, however, since that would require much more detailed information than is available about what is included in military budgets and off-budget military expenditure items. (For example, military budgets might or might not cover civil defense, reserves and auxiliary forces, police and paramilitary forces, dual-purpose forces such as military and civilian police, military grants in kind, pensions for military personnel, and social security contributions paid by one part of government to another.)

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.

Year Value
1986 4,045,000,000
1987 3,971,000,000
1988 3,863,000,000
1989 4,006,000,000
1990 4,262,000,000
1991 4,466,000,000
1992 4,481,000,000
1993 4,628,000,000
1994 4,724,000,000
1996 3,000,000,000
1998 2,922,000,000
1999 2,923,000,000
2000 2,997,000,000
2001 3,222,000,000
2002 3,297,000,000
2003 50,781,000,000
2004 54,414,000,000
2005 64,506,000,000
2006 67,085,000,000
2007 68,541,000,000
2008 71,330,000,000
2009 76,250,000,000
2010 82,600,000,000
2011 89,800,000,000
2012 99,100,000,000
2013 105,300,000,000
2014 111,300,000,000
2015 117,400,000,000
2016 123,200,000,000
2017 129,800,000,000
2018 216,600,000,000

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Defense & arms trade