NATO Countries: All 32 Members and Their Defense Spending

About these figures

• Combined figures are sums of the members’ own figures for one year, not official aggregates, and are shown only when every member has a figure for that year. Missing figures are not counted as zero.
• Growth, inflation and other rates are not added up or averaged into a group or continent rate, because an unweighted average gives a small economy the same weight as a large one.
• GDP is converted to US dollars at market exchange rates; GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) adjusts for differences in price levels, so it is the better comparison of living standards and gives a different order.
• Military spending here is SIPRI’s measure as published by the World Bank. NATO publishes its own defence expenditure estimates, which use a different definition, so a country can be above 2% in one and below it in the other. NATO members pledged in 2014 to move towards 2% of GDP within a decade, and agreed at The Hague in 2025 to reach 5% of GDP by 2035, of which at least 3.5% is core defence.
• IMF figures for the current year are projections from the World Economic Outlook, revised at each release, not measured values.

Sources and definitions

Military spending MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS

Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product Unit: % of GDP (SIPRI). World Bank (World Development Indicators)

Military spending, US$ MS.MIL.XPND.CD

Military spending USD, in current prices (converted at the exchange rate for the given year) Unit: current US dollars (SIPRI). World Bank (World Development Indicators)

GDP IMF.NGDPD

Economic output at current prices, expressed using market exchange rates. Unit: current US dollars. International Monetary Fund (World Economic Outlook)

GDP per person IMF.NGDPDPC

Current-price economic output divided by the population. Unit: current US dollars. International Monetary Fund (World Economic Outlook)

Population SP.POP.TOTL

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates. Unit: people. World Bank (World Development Indicators)

GDP per person at PPP IMF.PPPPC

Purchasing-power-adjusted current-price economic output per person. Unit: international dollars (PPP). International Monetary Fund (World Economic Outlook)

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