# EU countries by military spending as a share of GDP, 2025

All 27 values come from World Bank for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `military_expenditure_gdp`
- Unit: % of GDP
- Definition: Military expenditure as a percentage of GDP: current and capital spending on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces, defence ministries, paramilitary forces trained for military operations and military space activities. World Bank series from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
- Source: World Bank, Military expenditure, % of GDP (MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-09
- Citation: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Military expenditure, % of GDP (MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/military-expenditure/eu-countries
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/military-expenditure/eu-countries.csv

| Rank | Place | % of GDP |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Poland | 4.5 |
| 2 | Latvia | 3.6 |
| 3 | Estonia | 3.4 |
| 4 | Denmark | 3.3 |
| 5 | Lithuania | 3.1 |
| 6 | Greece | 3 |
| 7 | Finland | 2.6 |
| 8 | Sweden | 2.5 |
| 9 | Romania | 2.3 |
| 10 | Germany | 2.3 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 2.2 |
| 12 | Spain | 2.1 |
| 13 | Hungary | 2 |
| 14 | Slovakia | 2 |
| 15 | France | 2 |
| 16 | Croatia | 2 |
| 17 | Belgium | 2 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 2 |
| 19 | Italy | 1.9 |
| 20 | Czechia | 1.8 |
| 21 | Portugal | 1.7 |
| 22 | Cyprus | 1.6 |
| 23 | Slovenia | 1.5 |
| 24 | Austria | 1.1 |
| 25 | Luxembourg | 0.9 |
| 26 | Malta | 0.4 |
| 27 | Ireland | 0.2 |