Not RM18 billion hor, I say around RM15 billion hor up from RM12
billion because of their latest spending spree.
BTW, you don't take everything in the CIA factbook as gospel words,
especially when it come to figures, and not to mention those figure
is 2 years back. The red dot highest budget for any one time is in
the range of SGD7-8 billion only, but most of the time is hovering
around SGD5 billion. Mat land budget is a bit weird, although on
paper they do set aside a sum of money for their yearly
expenditure, but it always sway a lot (big cuts or big spendings)
depending on their government mood.
P.S. Pls take note of the currency conversion rate between
USD-SGD-RM 
quote]Originally posted by kenhor:
[b]Originally posted by bigballs11:
Well, the yearly expenditure for red dot defence budget is approx
SGD5 billion, divided by our population of 4 million works out
about SGD$125/year/head. This compared to our annual GDP of lets
say USD$35,000(SGD$61,250)/head works out approx 0.20% load class
of our current economy.
In contrast Malaysia yearly defence expenditure is RM12++ billion
or SGD6 billion, dividied by their population of 20 million works
out about SGD$300/year/head. This compared to their annual GDP of
lets say USD$10,000(SGD$17,500)/head works out approx 1.71% load
class of their economy.
How did you arrive at the RM18 billion defense budget of military
per year for Malaysia?
I am looking at the CIA factbook . Singapore spends 4.3 Billion in
2000 and Malaysia spend 1.8 billion .. how they are going to jump
from 1.8 to 4.7 billion in 2 years?[/b][/quote]
