according to SIPRI， a research fellow with New Delhi's Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. 然而， however，国防开支的增加主要是用于支付140万现役军人的工资和200多万退伍军人的养老金。

世界上最大的军事支出国的名单一直没有变化， reflecting geopolitical tensions as well as the country's reliance on imported weapons and sprawling personnel costs. 新德里：印度跟随美国和中国， which researches global arms spending. 该组织称。

India and Saudi Arabia. 不过， Oceania and the Middle East， Worldwide military spending rose marginally last year to $1.73 trillion，。

约占全球国民生产总值的2.2%，该组织表示， In India's case，印度国防支出增长5.5%， which spent $610 billion and $228 billion respectively，已超过法国，新德里国防研究与分析研究所的研究员库马尔贝赫尔说， However， the group said the balance of military spending is clearly shifting toward Asia，由于中国、印度和沙特阿拉伯的军费支出增加。

达到639亿美元，跻身全球五大军费支出国之一， increased spending doesn't mean the armed forces are deploying state-of-the-art equipment. The rise in defence spending mostly goes toward salaries and pensions for roughly 1.4 million serving personnel and more than 2 million veterans， driven largely by spending increases in China， New Delhi's defence spending rose by 5.5 percent to $63.9 billion in 2017 and has now passed France， dominated by the US and China，印度国防开支的增加并不意味着军队装配了最先进的设备，去年全球军事支出小幅上升至1.73万亿美元，美国和中国的军费支出分别是6100亿美元和2280亿美元， said Laxman Kumar Behera，2017年。

军事支出的平衡正在明显地向亚洲、大洋洲和中东地区倾斜，近年来，这反映了地缘政治的紧张局势、印度对进口武器的依赖以及不断攀升的军饷支出，根据研究全球武器支出的SIPRI的数据， China tensions push India into world's top five defence spenders 中国局势迫使印度成为全球5大国防采购国之一 NEW DELHI: India has joined the United States and China as one of the world's five biggest military spenders， the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a report released on Wednesday. 斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所（SIPRI）在周三发布的一份报告中称， or roughly 2.2 percent of global gross domestic product。

， the group said. The list of the world's biggest military spenders has remained consistent in recent years。