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President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that NATO member countries “were taking advantage” of the U.S. and should be paying more than double what they currently are required to pay for their ...
President Donald Trump is pushing other countries within the NATO military alliance to contribute more to their defense spending. In 2017, the U.S. spent (at current exchange rates) an estimated ...
Poland, which borders Ukraine, is the NATO member that spends the highest share of GDP on defence – 4.12% last year, alliance estimates show. It is followed by Estonia with 3.43% and the United ...
The EU states on its website that “the total value of all goods and services produced (gross domestic product or GDP) in the EU in 2021 was € 14.5 trillion”, which is about 15.5tn in US dollars.
Pew Research Center's 2016 survey among its member states showed that while most countries viewed NATO positively, most NATO members preferred keeping their military spending the same. The response to whether their country should militarily aid another NATO country if it were to get into a serious military conflict with Russia was also mixed.
The share of total expenditure, the average defence spending was 2.5 % in 2021 in the EU and 2.4% in the euro area. As a share of GDP the average was 1.3% in the EU and in the euro area. [1] Total defence expenditure of the European Defence Agency (EDA) Member States was €279 billion in 2023, which was 1.6% of the 27 EDA Member States’ GDP. [2]
In 2023, 11 Nato countries spent the equivalent of at least 2% of GDP on defence.
Global partners are on the same level as countries with an Individual Partnership Action Plan, with regards to working side by side with NATO member states on "a range of common cross-cutting security challenges such as cyber defense, counter-terrorism, non-proliferation and resilience". [3]