Luxembourg is the lowest spender, at 0.72 percent of GDP, though given its uniquely small size has its own goal of spending 2 percent of gross national income on its military.

NATO’s guidelines say countries should spend 2 percent of their GPD on defense each year. Here’s the breakdown of how much NATO members spend on defense, by GDP.

Germany spent 1.49 percent of its GDP on defense, putting it in the bottom 10 for spending despite having Europe's largest economy. ... NATO countries defense spending as a percentage of GDP.

Trump has long advocated for members of the military alliance to ramp up defense spending to 5 percent of their gross domestic product—up from a target of 2 percent set in 2014 that the majority ...

See how much NATO countries spend on defense and how that has changed. Many member countries would have to double defense spending by 2035 to meet new targets, charts show.

The plan calls for a target of military spending at 3.5 percent of their gross domestic product, plus another 1.5 percent for newer, nontraditional “defense-related” spending by 2032 ...

Increased military spending is a hot-button topic in Europe, especially with a widely disliked Mr. Trump pushing the issue, and European politicians need to show that such spending will produce ...

The U.S. last year spent 3.4 percent of its GDP on defense; Poland comes closest, spending 4.12 percent in 2024, and aims to boost that to 4.7 percent this year. Spending tends to be higher the closer ...

The transatlantic alliance reached a milestone in 2024 when all non-U.S. NATO allies spent the 2% ... countries’ contribution as a percentage of their Gross ... for their own defense.

Boeing executives said they expected a "very significant expansion" in Europe over the next decade. They made the comments at a media briefing at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday. European countries ...

But Šimonytė said Europe should have increased defense spending "long ago," and she noted that many European countries still do not meet the NATO target of 2% of GDP being spent on defense.