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)
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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