EU: military defense spending by country 2020

In 2020, France and Germany had the highest military budgets of the European Union (EU-27) members with around 38.6 billion euros and 33.2 billion euros, respectively. However, both France and Germany invested less than two percent of their GDP for military defense, a share agreed upon among NATO members in 2006. Italy had the third highest defense spending with around 21.1 billion euros. All remaining EU-27 countries spent less than ten billion euros.

General government expenditure on military defense in the European Union (EU-27) in 2020, by country (in million euros)

Characteristic	Expenditure in million euros
France*	38,569
Germany*	33,230
Italy	21,126
Netherlands	9,926
Spain*	9,296
Poland	8,951.2
Norway	5,982.6
Sweden	5,272.9
Switzerland	5,236.5
Romania	5,071.1
Greece	4,241
Belgium	4,004.8
Denmark	3,484.2
Finland	3,112
Austria	2,210.3
Czechia	1,930
Portugal*	1,473.2
Hungary	1,460.8
Slovakia	1,182.8
Lithuania	955.3
Bulgaria	874.2
Ireland	773.5
Latvia	727
Estonia	636.7
Croatia	519.7
Luxembourg	412.9
Slovenia	385.5
Cyprus	384.4
Malta	66.8
Iceland	0

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February 2022

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2020

Supplementary notes

* Provisional value.

Government expenditure by COFOG (UNSD classification of functions of government, replicated in ESA2010) function and type notified by national authorities in Table 11 of the ESA 2010 transmission program.

The data refers to Section [GF0201] of the Eurostat Database Statistic, online data code [GOV_10A_EXP].

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