The Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative has launched a real-time NATO Defense Spending Tracker to offer a clearer and fuller picture of how allies are contributing to collective defense and the development of real military capabilities. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, European defense spending in aggregate has trended positive. European and Canadian defense spending as a share of GDP has increased from 1.66 percent in 2022 to 2.02 percent in 2024. Twenty-three NATO members now spend at least 2 percent of GDP on defense—nearly four times the number (six) that did in 2021. Ahead of The Hague Summit, fewer than one third of allies have pledged to spend at least 3.5 percent of GDP on defense. Only Poland is currently at that level.
NATO defense spending tracker (Atlantic Council)
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