So glad we’re cutting social services for this /s (I live in Germany)
The countries who believed the US would defend them clearly have the biggest jump.
And, instead of increase of decrease, this link shows the defense spending as % of GDP in 2025. Also note that EU classification of defense spending( (COFOG), is stricter than NATO’, so that’s why there are sometimes discrepancies.
Also a good graph, showing a different thing.
Yes, It was this statement from your OP which made me curious :
“Spain and Norway increased military spending by roughly 50% in 2025, the fastest growth among the world’s top defense spenders.”
So now we have relative and absolute perc.✌🏻
Without Norway as they are not EU member
here, fixed it for youI considered an upvote for your effort, but then i realised you failed to sort by YoY change and also didn’t link the source, so decided to comment with this petty remark instead.
The source is the article. Thank you for confirming that people lost ability to read text that is not an image.
You copied the data and sorted the data in a way that is not what the article is about. If i copied that table and sorted the countries alfabetically, i also wouldn’t have “fixed it”. I meant to imply your “fix” is inferior to the already provided article, dispute the effort you put into your reply.
It’s sorted by total amount of spending. Still he could have presented that better.
I think the tables are crap though as they are not listing % off GDP of the countries.
The spending number is nominal.
It’s also not adjusted for population or GDP.
Completely useless.
This is a far worse way to show YoY change
