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NATO defense spending (share at/above 2% GDP)

32 allies · 2025 (all 32 allies)

current · reviewed as of June 5, 2026
Value32 allies
Period2025 (all 32 allies)
As ofDecember 31, 2025
Last reviewedJune 5, 2026
Confidencemedium
Data modelive · source-linked
Citation readinesshigh readiness

Note

NATO reports that in 2025 all 32 Allies met or exceeded the 2% of GDP defence-spending guideline, up from three Allies in 2014. An annual figure that may be revised; the 2% guideline has since been supplemented by a higher longer-term investment commitment. Manually maintained static value, not real-time and not a causal attribution.

Version history

This observation is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions, from v1.37.0 to v1.187.0. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only — not fabricated for versions that predate the full-payload store.

Full record history: records/observation--obs-defense-nato2pct/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.

Relationships & machine-readable

Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-defense-nato2pct/data.json · source page: NATO — Defence expenditure of NATO countries · per-record provenance.

How to cite

NATO defense spending (share at/above 2% GDP): 32 allies (2025 (all 32 allies)), North Atlantic Treaty Organization, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-defense-nato2pct. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.

Machine-readable: data.json · source registry · full page.