Uzbekistan - Military Expenditure

Military expenses in the 2018 state budget will be at 4% of the GDP, the Deputy chief of the State Budget Department of the Finance Ministry Ismonjon Mamajonov said 11 January 2918 at the meeting of the International Press Club. "Recently, the Uzbekistan Defense Doctrine has been adopted recently. The state budget provides for the necessary contributions based on the Defense Doctrine and other earlier documents. This cash equivalent of 4% of GDP will be enough for the development of our army," he said. Uzbekistan’s GDP in 2018 is projected at 290.6 trillion soums. Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed 10 January 2018 the Uzbekistan's Defense Doctrine Bill into Law. The updated doctrine takes into account the global and regional trends, the need to adequately respond to emerging threats and challenges, and the priorities and capabilities of the country. The Defense Doctrine establishes the principal approaches and vectors of Uzbekistan's defense policy, sets the tasks of the Armed Forces and defines the fundamentals of military and economic support for the defense of the country, including promising areas for developing of the military-industrial complex. In the early 2000s, Uzbekistan sharply reduced its defense expenditures as civil wars concluded in Afghanistan and Tajikistan and the government recognized an over- commitment to defense. Between 2001 and 2003, defense expenditures decreased from US$74 million to US$52 million, but by 2005 they had increased again to US$60 million. The military budget in 1995 was estimated to be US$315 million. Military expenditure (% of GDP) in Uzbekistan was reported at 0.54 % in 2003, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources.

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.)

Uzbekistan	Country or land		165
Central Asia	Geographic group		34			Table I:			Green figures are highly uncertain
5.000	Political population quintile					Military expenditure, armed forces, GDP, population,			Blue figures are extremely uncertain
4.000	Economic population quintile at MER					labor force, and their ratios, 2006 - 2016			n/a indicates unpublished estimate
5.000	Economic population quintile at PPP
See country notes at bottom of page.
Parameter / Year	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Mean
Demographic parameters
Armed forces personnel (AF) (in thousands)	75	80	80	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	83
- Armed forces personnel as % of population	0.28%	0.30%	0.29%	0.31%	0.31%	0.30%	0.30%	0.30%	0.29%	0.29%	0.29%	0.30%
- Armed forces personnel as % of labor force	0.65%	0.68%	0.66%	0.68%	0.65%	0.63%	0.62%	0.60%	0.59%	0.58%	0.57%	0.63%
Population (midyear, in millions)	26.8	27.1	27.3	27.6	27.9	28.1	28.4	28.7	28.9	29.2	29.5	28.1
Labor force (LF) (midyear, in millions)	11.5	11.8	12.1	12.5	13.0	13.4	13.7	14.1	14.4	14.7	15.0	13.3
- Labor force as % of population	42.7%	43.5%	44.3%	45.2%	46.6%	47.8%	48.4%	49.1%	49.8%	50.4%	51.0%	47.2%
Armed forces composition (in thousands)[1]
- Army (land forces)	40	45	45	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	48.2
- Navy (may include marines)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
- Air force (may include air defense)	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15.0
- Other regular forces (incl. joint & support)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
- Paramilitary and irregular forces	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20.0
Economic parameters in national currency
Military expenditure (ME)
- current national currency units (millions)	467,000	730,000	1,110,000	1,470,000	1,930,000	2,340,000	2,720,000	3,530,000	4,010,000	5,310,000	6,170,000
- constant 2016 ncu (millions)	1,980,000	2,540,000	3,050,000	3,440,000	3,880,000	4,040,000	4,080,000	4,640,000	4,710,000	5,710,000	6,170,000	4,020,000
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ME per capita (constant 2016 ncu)	73,700	93,900	111,000	125,000	139,000	144,000	144,000	162,000	163,000	196,000	209,000	142,000
Gross domestic product (GDP)
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GDP per capita (constant 2016 ncu)	3,330,000	3,630,000	3,910,000	4,190,000	4,500,000	4,830,000	5,180,000	5,540,000	5,920,000	6,330,000	6,760,000	4,920,000
(ME/AF) / (GDP/LF)[2]	3.4	3.8	4.3	4.4	4.7	4.7	4.5	4.8	4.7	5.3	5.5	4.6
ME/GDP ("military burden")[3]	2.2%	2.6%	2.8%	3.0%	3.1%	3.0%	2.8%	2.9%	2.7%	3.1%	3.1%	2.8%

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