Defense spending measures how much governments allocate to their militaries. Warconomy tracks it from reputable annual sources — SIPRI for global and national totals and real-terms change, NATO for the 2%-of-GDP allies count — as levels and direction, never as a causal story.
- Military budgets have risen sharply in the era of the Russia–Ukraine war, reshaping national budgets and the global defense-industrial picture.
- Every figure lives on its own source-linked page — this guide adds no new numbers.
- Careful, associative language: not investment advice, not legal advice, not real-time.
Why this matters
Military budgets have risen sharply in the era of the Russia–Ukraine war, reshaping national budgets and the global defense-industrial picture.
What the data shows
- SIPRI world military-expenditure totals and top national spenders, each with its year and source.
- The NATO 2%-of-GDP allies count.
- A defense comparison view and rankings built from the same source-linked values.
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What this cannot prove
- Figures are annual, not real-time, and not a causal attribution.
- Only same-basis values (current vs constant USD) are compared.
- It is not complete coverage of every country.
Sources & data
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