NATO — Defence expenditure of NATO countries
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Source profile
- Type: Intergovernmental
- Access / format: Official web page (HTML)
- Machine-readable: No — manual read
- Update cadence: annual
- Used for: defense spending, nato, annual
Original source first: for the authoritative value, go to North Atlantic Treaty Organization ↗; cite Warconomy for the structured, dated overview. See how to cite, source health, and the source hierarchy.
Source details
How Warconomy uses this source
NATO's published reporting on allied defence expenditure relative to the 2% of GDP guideline. Annual figures are estimates that NATO revises in later releases; the 2% guideline has since been supplemented by a higher longer-term investment commitment. Manually maintained static fixture in this repo; not fetched at runtime and not real-time.
Citation readiness
Why
- official publisher
- backs a source-linked observation
- deep link to the specific page/series
- manually reviewed
Limitations
- manually maintained static value, not real-time
- annual data may lag
Citation readiness is a derived label from the source’s authority, role, and how directly it backs a maintained value — not a correctness claim.
Indicators from this source
Live/static indicators are manually maintained from cited public sources and are not real-time. Sample rows remain labeled.
| Indicator | Value | As of | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NATO defense spending (share at/above 2% GDP) | 32 allieslive · source-linked | December 31, 2025 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | Medium |
Where this source is used
Review status
Annual source does not need near-term review. This source backs 1 live observation; the oldest has an asOf of December 31, 2025, giving a recommended review-by date of July 1, 2027 for its annual cadence. Review status is a re-check signal, not a correctness claim.
How to refresh: open the cited annualsource, confirm the latest value and date, update the observation’s value, asOf, and lastReviewed, then bump the site review date. See the data review queue for sitewide priorities.
Version history
This source is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions (v1.37.0–v1.187.0), citing 1 observation and 0 facts. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only.
Full record history: records/source--nato/data.json.
Relationships & machine-readable
This source backs 1 observation, 0 facts, and appears in 1 provenance record. See the source JSON (includes a source relationship graph), the per-record provenance export, and the source health checklist.
Limitations
- Values referencing this source are manually maintained static fixtures, not real-time and not automatically updated.
- Figures may be revised by the publisher in later releases; review cadence depends on the source.
- Warconomy links to the publisher’s canonical page; it does not reproduce the source in full and is not affiliated with it.