Ranked: Military Spending Growth by Country in 2025

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/changes-in-global-military-spending-in-2025/

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HowRu68@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 77d (3 replies)

And, instead of increase of decrease, this link shows the defense spending as % of GDP in 2025. Also note that EU classification of defense spending( (COFOG), is stricter than NATO', so that's why there are sometimes discrepancies.

CAVOK@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 77d (2 replies)

Also a good graph, showing a different thing.

HowRu68@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 77d (1 reply)

Yes, It was this statement from your OP which made me curious :

"Spain and Norway increased military spending by roughly 50% in 2025, the fastest growth among the world’s top defense spenders."

So now we have relative and absolute perc.✌🏻

Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d

Without Norway as they are not EU member

Melchior@feddit.org · 7 pts · 77d

The countries who believed the US would defend them clearly have the biggest jump.

huppakee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 77d

celeste@feddit.org · 5 pts · 77d

So glad we're cutting social services for this /s (I live in Germany)

vane@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d (6 replies)


here, fixed it for you

huppakee@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 77d (3 replies)

I considered an upvote for your effort, but then i realised you failed to sort by YoY change and also didn't link the source, so decided to comment with this petty remark instead.

vane@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 77d (2 replies)

The source is the article. Thank you for confirming that people lost ability to read text that is not an image.

huppakee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d (1 reply)

You copied the data and sorted the data in a way that is not what the article is about. If i copied that table and sorted the countries alfabetically, i also wouldn't have "fixed it". I meant to imply your "fix" is inferior to the already provided article, dispute the effort you put into your reply.

hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 77d

It’s sorted by total amount of spending. Still he could have presented that better.

I think the tables are crap though as they are not listing % off GDP of the countries.

Skua@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 77d

This is a far worse way to show YoY change

square@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 77d

The spending number is nominal.

It's also not adjusted for population or GDP.

Completely useless.