Australia
Global Firepower rank #17 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.3208 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts Australia's 2025 military spending at $35.3 billion, 1.9% of GDP and up 3% on the year in real terms, ranking #17 in the world. It has no nuclear weapons of its own.
Alliances: US treaty ally
People and money
- Military spending
- $35.3B
- Active personnel
- 59K
- Reserves
- 33K
- Paramilitary
- 0
Land forces
- Tanks
- 46
- Armored vehicles
- 17K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 0
- Towed artillery
- 48
- Rocket artillery
- 8
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 348
- Fighters
- 24
- Attack aircraft
- 71
- Helicopters
- 72
- Attack helicopters
- 22
- Tankers
- 6
- Transports
- 37
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 45
- Aircraft carriers
- 0
- Helicopter carriers
- 2
- Submarines
- 6
- Destroyers
- 3
- Frigates
- 7
- Corvettes
- 0
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 0
- Deployed warheads
- 0
Compare Australia with
Brazil 路 China 路 Egypt 路 France 路 Germany 路 India 路 Indonesia 路 Iran 路 Israel 路 Italy 路 Japan 路 North Korea 路 Pakistan 路 Poland 路 Russia 路 Saudi Arabia 路 South Korea 路 Spain 路 Taiwan 路 Turkey 路 Ukraine 路 United Kingdom 路 United States
Last updated 2026-10-27. Sources: Global Firepower 2026 (personnel, equipment counts, powerindex), SIPRI Military Expenditure 2025 (Apr 2026) (military spending, share of gdp), SIPRI Yearbook 2026: World Nuclear Forces (nuclear warheads (jan 2026)).