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El Salvador Defense Budget
El Salvador's defense budgets traditionally were relatively
modest, and the percentage of the national income devoted to the
armed forces generally was conservative. Military expenditures in
the post-World War II period to 1970 ranged from 9 to 11 percent
of the national budget. The demands of counterinsurgency
resulted, however, in large increases in the country's defense
spending in the 1980s. The defense budget, which included the
"public security sector," increased substantially from fiscal
year
(FY--see Glossary)
1982, when it totalled US$139 million, to
FY 1988, when it reached US$204 million
(see Foreign Military Influence and Assistance
, this ch.). In 1986 army expenditures
accounted for 71 percent of the total defense budget; air force,
23 percent; and navy, 4 percent. The 1986 defense budget
constituted 4.7 percent of the gross national product
(GNP--see Glossary).
By the late 1980s, defense expenditures accounted for
25 percent of the national budget.
Data as of November 1988
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