Defence Data 2011

The European Defence Agency collects defence data on an annual basis. The Ministries of Defence of the Agency’s 26 participating Member States (all EU Member States except Denmark) provide the data. EDA acts as the custodian of the data and publishes the aggregated figures in this booklet. The data are broken down, based on a list of indicators approved by the Agency’s Ministerial Steering Board. This list has four sections, represented in the headings of the data presented in this brochure: General: macro-economic data to show how defence budgets relate to GDP and overall government spending Reform: major categories of defence budget spending – personnel; investment, including research & technology; operations & maintenance and others – to show what defence budgets are spent on European collaboration: for equipment procurement and R&T to show to what extent the Agency’s participating Member States are investing together Deployability: military deployed in crisis management operations to show the ratio between deployments and the total number of military The definitions, used for the gathering of the data, and some general caveats are listed at the end of the brochure