Defense expenditures of NATO member states 2025

Published by D. Clark, Dec 9, 2025

In 2025, the United States spent an estimated 980billion U.S. dollars on defence. This makes their defence budget, by far, the biggest out of all the NATO members. Germany was the country with the second-highest defence expenditure at 93.75 billion U.S. Dollars, with the UK following in third.

Defense expenditures of NATO member states in 2025 (in billion USD)

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August 2025

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Europe

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January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025

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*2024 defence expenditure

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