Malaysia - Military expenditure (current LCU)

The value for Military expenditure (current LCU) in Malaysia was 15,600,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17,700,000,000 in 2015 and a minimum value of 130,000,000 in 1961.

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
1960 157,000,000
1961 130,000,000
1962 134,000,000
1963 186,000,000
1964 259,000,000
1965 363,000,000
1966 455,000,000
1967 439,000,000
1968 454,000,000
1969 440,000,000
1970 611,000,000
1971 696,000,000
1972 708,000,000
1973 725,000,000
1974 956,000,000
1975 1,055,000,000
1976 1,118,000,000
1977 1,570,000,000
1978 1,406,000,000
1979 1,704,000,000
1980 2,255,000,000
1981 3,333,000,000
1982 3,359,000,000
1983 3,116,000,000
1984 2,985,000,000
1985 2,674,000,000
1986 2,308,000,000
1987 3,363,000,000
1988 2,241,000,000
1989 2,761,000,000
1990 3,043,000,000
1991 4,323,000,000
1992 4,500,000,000
1993 4,951,000,000
1994 5,565,000,000
1995 6,121,000,000
1996 6,091,000,000
1997 5,877,000,000
1998 4,547,000,000
1999 6,320,500,000
2000 5,826,000,000
2001 7,351,000,000
2002 8,504,000,000
2003 10,950,000,000
2004 10,728,000,000
2005 11,817,000,000
2006 11,981,000,000
2007 13,649,000,000
2008 14,717,000,000
2009 13,974,000,000
2010 12,415,000,000
2011 14,359,000,000
2012 13,922,000,000
2013 15,489,000,000
2014 16,100,000,000
2015 17,700,000,000
2016 17,300,000,000
2017 15,100,000,000
2018 14,000,000,000
2019 15,600,000,000

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