Only 11 NATO countries have defense spending that exceeds the two percent of GDP required by charter.

Last year, the vast majority of NATO countries spent less than the recommended two percent level on defense as a percentage of national GDP, according to data presented in the published infographic.

The goal set for the alliance countries to spend at least 2% of GDP per year on defense is achieved by only 11 countries - the USA, Great Britain, Poland, Greece, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and the three Baltic states. At the same time, the indicated share of military expenditures reflects the financing of the own national defense of the alliance member countries, and their contribution to the overall NATO budget is much smaller.

From the published infographics it is clearly visible that Poland spends the most of all members of the military bloc on military purposes - 3,9% of US GDP - 3,5% of GDP. At the same time, taking into account the incomparability of the GDP of the United States and Poland, in quantitative terms, American expenditures on military purposes are twenty-five times higher than Polish ones.

The rest of the list shows a certain trend, whereby the later a country was accepted into NATO, the greater the share of its own GDP it is forced to spend on military needs. Thus, in third place on the list is poor Estonia, followed by Lithuania and Latvia, as expected, and then Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Finland. The share of military spending in the countries of "old Europe" is comparatively low - France - 1,9% of GDP, Germany - 1,6%, Spain - 1,2%.

Comments

[Lev_Russia]

Oh, what a tragedy... They don't pay the required 2%... Mishka Kasyanov (nicknamed two percent) is not on them!!! And yet the Alliance could have taken into account that the GDP growth for the past year in many NATO countries is less than these 2%...

[Stanovoy]

Well, on the other hand, the US has increased its defense spending several times over. They have a printing press and all the countries of the world pay them for it, dollar inflation, etc. Russia, by the way, too, because we have not yet emerged from our dollar dependence (everything is still tied to the dollar). But we are working hard in this direction!
So the US complains in vain that they are not paid... They just turn on the machine in three shifts and voila, 33 trillion in debt and the whole world pays them for all of it...
Here are the bastard moneylenders

[karabas-barabas]

Well, Dollars seem to be printed daily by the carload for a simple banal reason: the worldwide demand for $ as cash, banknotes and the Russian Federation as well, is literally inundated with tons of cash. Let's remember Colonel Zakharchenko, with his 3 tons of money, of which there were $ and € 260 million and they were rotting in Chinese tote bags. Just imagine how many more of these Zakharchenkos have stolen a bunch of heavy bags of greenery and euros. Or remember Escobar, who flooded all of America and Europe with coke and was literally sitting on a mountain of cash. In many countries around the world, $ has either replaced the national currency or is a parallel currency. Simply because it has been the most stable unit for the last 100 years. And for the last 100 years you can literally pay in $ everywhere. Therefore, of course, the US National Reserve Bank makes good money from the love of at least half the world. To get away from $, you need to create a very powerful economy (see Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Australia, as examples of self-sufficient, powerful, rich economies) and preferably a powerful army, so that no one covets it. Then there will be a stable currency in which you can make payments like in others without large % for fear. But the problem is that most countries in the world benefit from such a rich America, if you take China, Japan, Korea, all of Asia, take Europe and the Arab Peninsula, they simply live from exports to the USA and US investments, countries where there is a huge market for all kinds of rubbish, from grub to airplanes. Russia, for example, doesn’t care, since the bulk of the geshefts were with Europe. If you mean debts, then if Americans do not have enough budget, they take out a loan and it is taken into account in debts and in the electronic world it goes to the State Department budget. Otherwise, grandfather Biden would have gone to the National Bank, printed several bags of money there and handed them over to Zelensky. But Grandpa Biden is stuck in a clinch with Republicans on budget issues.

[al3x]

Much of the dollar supply has long since gone from being a pile of cash into ones and zeros in accounts that, as we all know, can be frozen at any moment. To issue dollars, no machine is needed for a long time, although cash, of course, is printed.

[karabas-barabas]

You write some obvious things, that non-cash is squeezing out cash, but we are talking about something else, about why Americans print $.

[poquello]

How did Trump build everyone, and where by the way?

Quote: Lev_Russia

Mishka Kasyanov (nicknamed two percent) is not on them!!!

[alystan]

But here’s some really unexpected news: the Security Council of the Russian Federation has undertaken a thorough analysis of the activities of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for 2023. This is still a ghostly hope that maybe one “presumptuous lady” will finally be brought to order. They will teach you how to love your Motherland!

[Viktor Sergeev]

The poor are ahead of everyone, the USA understands everything here, and the rest understand that this is a waste of money.

[Fatalist]

Speaking of beggars.) I read that the European Commission is already aware that we have put Callas on the wanted list, but there is no official statement yet.)

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Interest is all good. But the United States did not even remember its income from the sale of military equipment to the countries of the bloc. Plus, the technology is not the newest. And all sorts of Bulgaria, Romania and other mongrels from the former Warsaw Pact, this is generally a warehouse for scrap metal equipment from NATO and former socialist countries. They do not have modern armies. But the ambitions are like those of a shaggy country. Hence the conclusion: our politicians should learn how to develop their country and their military-industrial complex, and not feed the barmoids from the “fraternal parties” and “fraternal peoples” by taking away from their own people. No matter where you spit, they are all “brothers”. We are already at war with only “brothers”....

[zorglub bulgroz]

As GDP declines in many of these countries, the fixed percentage of defense spending will increase.
on the other hand, the government deficit will explode

[Michael]

Quote from: zorglub bulgroz

fixed percentage of defense spending will increase

There is one poorly determined frame of reference. And it is precisely from the determination of a cell in a multicellular organism. Humanity is an organism, it needs to live - and the percentage of GDP has nothing to do with it.

[zorglub bulgroz]

Since GDP will fall in many of these countries, the share allocated to defense, which is fixed, will increase in percentage terms.
The government budget deficit, on the other hand, will increase

[belovvladimir]

The rest of the list shows a certain trend, in which the later a country was admitted to NATO, the larger share of its own GDP it is forced to spend on military needs. Thus, poor Estonia is in third place on the list, followed, as expected, by Lithuania and Latvia.

It’s interesting that sprats are again in price, the demand is such that they no longer have time to seal the fish in jars at the factory, they are taken straight from the assembly line.

Or did the government begin to sell kidneys en masse, to VSU, black transplantologists!?

[evgen1221]

It’s easier there with tribals, money is allocated for the entire population with tribal passports, but in fact 20% of the list lives and works in the country, the rest work and live outside, in total 80% is free money, the government can buy it inexpensively, about a couple of dozen lyams a year . There is still a mountain of money left, well, they are fattening up, we are all so militant, and even tomorrow we can invest 50% in NATO. In fact, they live in debt, the Germans put it in their bedside table and they take from it and also reproach the Germans for not investing enough.))))

[karabas-barabas]

Look at the GDP growth tables of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and what their budgets consist of. What do they earn from and what do they invest in? Everything is in the public domain, you don’t need to think about anything.

[pharmacist]

So here it is, a list of underpayers whom Trump is not going to protect! Luxembourg especially got away from the hands - the first candidate for occupation by the evil Russia.

[hohohol]

Luxembourg especially got out of hand

Where is it?

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Where where? On a star! It is Luxembourg that will destroy NATO!

[Nyrobsky]

It's not a weak scam that mattresses came up with.

[alystan]

Only 11 NATO countries have defense spending that exceeds the two percent of GDP required by charter.

According to the above infographics, there are not 11, but 10 such countries, because in Slovakia this figure is 2,0%.

[TermNachTer]

If you remove such economic giants as the Baltic states and Romanians from this list, then it becomes even more fun))))