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US President Donald Trump has long urged NATO members to “pay their fair share” of defense spending.
The US spent an estimated $980 billion on defense in 2025 — nearly 62 percent of NATO’s total spending, and more than 10 times that of the UK, NATO’s second-biggest spender.
However, NATO allies are spending more in recent years. NATO asks its members to spend at least 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense, a threshold all members reached for the first time in 2025.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many countries have increased budgets to meet the moment. Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — all of which border Russia — each spend a larger share of GDP on defense than the US does, according to the alliance.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has stressed that Europe is now a stronger partner precisely because of this increased spending.
The US is the only NATO member to have actually decreased defense spending as a share of GDP over the past decade, from 3.5 percent in 2015 to 3.2 percent in 2025.
Further increases are expected: Last year, members pledged to reach 5 percent of GDP (3.5 percent on core military expenditures, 1.5 per cent on broader security) by 2035.
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