Jan 7, 2026
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The UK’s military budget has risen sharply since 2022 and is now among the world’s largest, running to tens of billions of pounds and equivalent to well over 2% of GDP in current estimates; NATO expec...
NATO defence spending guidelines
NATO's long-standing guideline for allies is 2% of GDP; Germany has moved from well below that level in earlier years to around the guideline in some datasets.
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What was the original agreed percentage of GDP that NATO countries agreed to spend on the military
The original agreed guideline was that NATO countries should spend 2% of their GDP on defense; that benchmark was first set as a ministerial guideline in 2006 and later reinforced politically at the 2...
Jan 7, 2026
How does Germany's defense spending as a percentage of GDP compare to France and the UK?
Germany has historically spent less of its GDP on defence than the United Kingdom and roughly the same or slightly less than France in recent years; in 2023 German defence outlays were about 1.6% of G...