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Global Militarisation Index 2019 \ GMI focuses on eastern Europe, European NATO and EU-countries
In this year's Global Militarisation Indix ranking, the ten countries that provided the military with markedly large amounts of resources in relation to other areas of society are Israel, Singapore, Armenia, Cyprus, South Korea, Russia, Greece, Jordan, Belarus and Azerbaijan.
Every year, BICC’s Global Militarisation Index (GMI) presents the relative weight and importance of a country's military apparatus in relation to its society as a whole. The GMI 2019 covers 154 states and is based on the latest available figures (in most cases data for 2018). The index project is financially supported by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Constellations of State Fragility Project of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) points, for example, to a connection between the very low level of militarisation of a country and its limited ability to provide pivotal state-run services for its citizens Conversely, however, this does not mean that the highest possible level of militarisation is desirable. For example, among the very highly militarised countries, there are a strikingly high number of countries that score poorly on the fragility dimension of legitimacy
Press release "New publication \ Global Militarisation Index (GMI) investigates trends in militarisation in Europe and across the globe" (pdf)
Press release "Neue Publikation \ Globaler Militarisierungsindex untersucht Militarisierungstrends in Europa und weltweit" (pdf, in German)
Press release "New publication \ Global Militarisation Index (GMI) investigates trends in militarisation in Europe and across the globe" (pdf)
Press release "Neue Publikation \ Globaler Militarisierungsindex untersucht Militarisierungstrends in Europa und weltweit" (pdf, in German)