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Amazing that Greece spends more and has a larger army than Germany.~~~~~~
Nato: Which countries are paying their fair share on defence?
The alliance expects each member nation to spend at least 2% of its gross domestic product on defence, but plenty are falling short.www.forces.net
"Eleven nations in 2023 reached the Nato guideline, up from seven in 2022.
Poland was the alliance's biggest spender as a share of GDP, contributing 3.90%, spending even more as a share of GDP than the US (3.49%) in second and Greece (3.01%) the next closest.
One trend seen is that countries bordering Ukraine, Russia, or its neighbour and ally Belarus are spending increasingly more following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Estonia (2.73%), Lithuania (2.54%), Finland (2.45%), Romania (2.44%), Hungary (2.43%) and Latvia (2.07%) are all exceeding the alliance's guideline for defence expenditure.
The nations falling short of the alliance's target in 2023 were France (1.90%), Montenegro (1.87%), North Macedonia (1.87%), Bulgaria (1.84%), Croatia (1.79%), Albania (1.76%), the Netherlands (1.70%), Norway (1.67%), Denmark (1.65%), Czech Republic (1.50%), Portugal (1.48%), Italy (1.46%), Canada (1.38%), Slovenia (1.35%), Turkey (1.31%), Spain (1.26%), Belgium (1.13%), Luxembourg (0.72%) and Germany