This article lists military spending inEuropean countries by varying methods including as a percentage ofGDP per capita and as a totalcapital expenditure as listed by theStockholm International Peace Research Institute unless otherwise stated or cited.
The share of total expenditure, the average defence spending was 2.7 % in 2023 in the EU and 2.5% in the euro area. As a share of GDP the average was 1.3% in the EU and 1.2% in the euro area.[1]
Total defence expenditure of theEuropean Defence Agency (EDA) Member States was €279 billion in 2023, which was 1.6% of the 27 EDA Member States’ GDP.[2]
The
European Defence Agency member state average spend on defence as a percentage of GDP was 1.6% in 2023.[2]
| NATO member |
| Country | Percentage of GDP expenditure, 2024[3] |
|---|---|
| 2.04% | |
| [a] | |
| 5.48% | |
| 1.00% | |
| 4.99% | |
| 2.07% | |
| 1.28% | |
| 0.75% | |
| 2.15% | |
| 1.79% | |
| 1.65% | |
| 1.92% | |
| 2.42% | |
| 3.37% | |
| 2.30% | |
| 2.05% | |
| 1.86% | |
| 1.89% | |
| 3.13% | |
| 2.16% | |
| [b] | |
| 0.24% | |
| 1.61% | |
| 2.43% | |
| 1.48% | |
| 3.26% | |
| 0.4%[6][c] | |
| 3.12% | |
| 0.96% | |
| 0.45% | |
| 0.60% | |
| [d] | |
| 1.83% | |
| 1.92% | |
| 2.10% | |
| 2.09% | |
| 4.15% | |
| 1.53% | |
| 2.30% | |
| 7.05% | |
| [e] | |
| 2.60% | |
| 2.01% | |
| 1.31% | |
| 1.51% | |
| 1.43% | |
| 0.72% | |
| 1.92% | |
| 34.48% | |
| 2.28% | |
| [e] |
| NATO member |
| Country | US $m in 2024[3] |
|---|---|
| 535.5 | |
| [a] | |
| 1,418.0 | |
| 5,258.7 | |
| 3,777.1 | |
| 1,491.4 | |
| 8,561.5 | |
| 216.0 | |
| 2,329.8 | |
| 1,629.1 | |
| 598.2 | |
| 6,524.9 | |
| 9,958.9 | |
| 1,441.9 | |
| 6,987.8 | |
| 64,675.0 | |
| 615.9 | |
| 88,458.5 | |
| 8,022.0 | |
| 4,734.7 | |
| [b] | |
| 1,330.5 | |
| 37,964.6 | |
| 1,209.0 | |
| 165.6 | |
| 1,425.7 | |
| [c] | |
| 2,627.5 | |
| 871.6 | |
| 109.3 | |
| 110.7 | |
| [d] | |
| 150.0 | |
| 23,179.2 | |
| 353.7 | |
| 10,435.3 | |
| 38,000.7 | |
| 4,641.6 | |
| 8,715.7 | |
| 148,967.3 | |
| [e] | |
| 2,322.8 | |
| 2,849.2 | |
| 951.9 | |
| 24,615.4 | |
| 12,040.3 | |
| 6,722.3 | |
| 24,978.7 | |
| 64,705.0 | |
| 81,763.2 | |
| [e] |