EU Total Military Spending 2025: $430.4bn

The 27 members of the European Union spent a combined $430.4bn on their militaries in 2025, our calculation from SIPRI country-level data. That total equals 15.7% of world military spending.

01 How much do EU countries spend on their militaries in 2025?

Adding up 2025 military expenditure across all 27 current EU member states — from large economies such as Germany and France down to the smallest members — produces a combined figure of $430.4bn, expressed in SIPRI constant 2024 US dollars. Coverage is complete: all 27 members are included, with no gaps or estimates required for this calculation.

02 EU spending as a share of world military spending

The EU's $430.4bn represents 15.7% of world military spending in 2025. In other words, roughly one of every six dollars spent globally on defense in 2025 came from an EU member state. That share reflects the EU's combined economic weight rather than any single member's spending: no individual EU country's budget approaches this total on its own, and the bloc's share of world spending is a function of aggregating 27 national budgets, not a single actor's decision.

03 How the total was calculated: coverage and methodology

The $430.4bn figure sums 2025 military expenditure, in constant 2024 US dollars, for all 27 states that were EU members as of 2025. Coverage is complete: all 27 current members have 2025 data included, with none missing or estimated for this calculation. Figures are drawn from SIPRI's country-level dataset, which is the authoritative independent source for military expenditure comparisons, but the EU-wide aggregation itself is ours.

• Currency basis — figures are in SIPRI constant 2024 US dollars, which strips out inflation and exchange-rate noise so totals are comparable across years.
• Membership scope — the calculation uses the EU's current 27-member roster, not the roster in any prior year.
• Estimate status — 2025 is a completed reporting year in this dataset, not a forward estimate, so no estimate flag applies here.

04 EU spending in context: comparison with NATO

The EU's $430.4bn figure sits alongside, but is not the same as, alliance-wide totals published for NATO defense spending. The two blocs overlap heavily in membership but are not identical: NATO includes non-EU members such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Turkey, whose budgets are large enough to substantially change the picture, while a handful of EU states are not in NATO. Readers comparing the two totals should treat "EU spending" and "NATO spending" as answering related but distinct questions — one about a political and economic union, the other about a military alliance with a different, partially overlapping membership.

05 Data sources and caveats

The underlying country-level figures come from the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, the standard reference for cross-country defense spending comparisons. Data as of 2026-07-26. Coverage for this calculation is complete, with all 27 members represented and none missing, so the total is not adjusted or extrapolated for any gap in reporting.