2024-01-17 17:14:00
The Armed Forces spent 85% of its 2023 budget on personnel pay, driven by rising spending on service members, reserves and pensioners. The spending profile on salaries and benefits distances Brazil from its objective of budgetary modernization, which takes NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) as a model.
Personnel expenses put pressure on the rest of the budgets of the Navy, Army and Air Force. In 2023, the Brazilian Armed Forces allocated only 5% of their expenses to investments (R$ 5.8 billion – US$1,210 million) and 10% to operating costs (R$ 11.3 billion – US$ 2,200 million ).
The numbers were compiled by Sheet with data from the final 2023 budgets available on the Transparency Portal.
The breakdown shows that the Armed Forces spent four times more on paying military pensions (R$ 25.7 billion -US$ 5.6 billion) than on investments, a situation that should be alleviated with the new PAC (Growth Acceleration Program). ), which allocated R$ 52.8 billion – US$ 10.7 billion – for Defense projects until 2030
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