NATO’s European allies reduce the gap with the US and all now exceed 2% in GDP spending on defense

The European allies of NATO and Canada have reduced their defense spending gap with the United States by four percentage points in just one year, while all members of the Atlantic Alliance have exceeded the 2% GDP investment threshold set at the 2014 Wales summit.

This is reflected in the annual report published this Thursday by the allied secretary general, Mark Rutte, which details that all NATO countries, including Spain, spent at least 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defense in 2025, a figure shared by Albania, Belgium, Canada and Portugal, and slightly surpassed by Italy (2.01%), the Czech Republic (2.01%) and France (2.05%).

Poland leads defense spending within NATO with 4.30% of its GDP, very close to the 5% set at the 2025 Hague summit, followed by Lithuania (4%), Latvia (3.74%), Estonia (3.42%) and Denmark (3.34%), with the United States having reduced its spending from 3.30% to 3.19% in just one year.

Together with our country, the rest of the European allies and Canada have jointly increased their defense spending to the point of now representing four out of every ten euros invested within NATO, thus reducing the gap with the United States, which has reduced its participation in total investment in one year from 64 to 60%.