EU Military Spending 2025: $430.4bn Total

The 27 European Union members spent a combined $430.4bn on defense in 2025, equal to 15.7% of world military spending.

01 How much did the EU spend on defense in 2025?

Adding up 2025 military expenditure for every current EU member state puts the bloc's combined defense spending at $430.4bn, expressed in SIPRI constant 2024 US dollars. This is not a forecast or an estimate — 2025 is an actual reported year in the SIPRI dataset, not one of the projection years (2026-2027) that require an estimate flag.

The figure covers all 27 of 27 current EU members, so there is no gap-filling or extrapolation involved: every country that belongs to the Union today has 2025 spending data included in the total.

02 How the $430.4bn total was calculated

SIPRI publishes military expenditure figures at the country level, not as a ready-made EU bloc total. To arrive at $430.4bn, this page sums the 2025 SIPRI figures for all 27 EU member states.

That distinction matters for anyone citing the number: $430.4bn is a derived aggregate, reproducible from public SIPRI data, rather than a statistic SIPRI itself reports.

03 EU spending as a share of world military spending

The EU's $430.4bn accounts for 15.7% of world military spending in 2025. This share figure is itself a verified SIPRI-derived statistic; a corresponding world-total dollar figure is not included here, since it would need to come from SIPRI's own published world total rather than be back-calculated by dividing the EU figure by its share.

04 EU spending in context: NATO and global comparison

The EU total sits alongside — but is not the same figure as — NATO defense spending, since NATO's membership and the EU's membership overlap heavily but are not identical: NATO includes non-EU members such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Turkey, while several EU states are militarily non-aligned. Readers comparing the two totals should treat them as measuring different groupings, not the same alliance under two names.

At 15.7% of world military spending, the EU's combined outlay is a substantial share of the global total, underscoring the bloc's collective weight in defense spending even though decisions on that spending remain the responsibility of individual member states rather than a single EU defense budget.

05 Data coverage and methodology notes

All figures are in SIPRI constant 2024 US dollars, which strip out the effect of inflation and exchange-rate movements so that spending can be compared across countries and years on a consistent basis. Because coverage is complete — 27 of 27 members — the $430.4bn total requires no adjustment for missing countries. Any future update to individual countries' SIPRI figures would change this total accordingly, since it is recalculated directly from the underlying country-level data rather than fixed as a published statistic.