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Sri Lanka has a defence force equivalent to 3.47 per cent of its workforce. This figure is recorded at a lower level in the US. Accordingly, the defence sector of the US is 0.84 per cent of its workforce. In China, the figure is 0.33 per cent. In India, it is 0.58 per cent. In Indonesia, the figure is recorded as 0.49 per cent. In Australia, it is 0.44 per cent. In the South Asian region, Pakistan records the figure at 1.25 per cent. Thus, despite maintaining a large defence sector in relation to the workforce, it is the working people who also have to maintain it.

When considering the Ministry of Defence, we spent 7% of the total budget for 2022 on it [Ministry of Defence] ... 60% of that goes to pay wages…Sri Lanka is one out of ten countries that has the greatest number of soldiers per 100 citizens. If we take 200 countries, we are in the first 10. Sri Lanka is a country that has around 1.5 soldiers for every 100 citizens.