Timor-Leste - Military expenditure (current LCU)

The value for Military expenditure (current LCU) in Timor-Leste was 34,400,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 14 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36,959,000 in 2015 and a minimum value of 8,230,000 in 2005.

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
2005 8,230,000
2006 17,105,000
2007 23,735,000
2008 23,651,000
2009 36,481,000
2010 26,389,000
2011 20,530,000
2012 33,388,000
2013 31,683,000
2014 29,624,000
2015 36,959,000
2016 26,217,000
2017 25,442,000
2018 20,610,000
2019 34,400,000

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Data for some countries are based on partial or uncertain data or rough estimates. For additional details please refer to the military expenditure database on the SIPRI website: https://sipri.org/databases/milex

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Defense & arms trade