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 In November 2007 the Ministerial Steering Board approved four collective benchmarks for investment: Equipment procurement (including R&D/R&T): 20% of total defence spending European collaborative equipment procurement: 35% of total equipment spending Defence Research & Technology: 2% of total defence spending European collaborative Defence R&T: 20% of total defence R&T spending These benchmarks are collective: they apply to the total sum spent by all participating Member States together. They are voluntary: turning them into national targets is optional. There are no timelines for realising these benchmarks. In its final section this brochure provides the results of the collective benchmarks. The definitions, used for the gathering of the data, and some general caveats are listed at the end of the brochure.