Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine pushed military spending worldwide to $2.46 trillion in 2024, representing a 7.4% ...

The rise in military spending in central and western ... and its 640% rise to $44bn was “the highest single-year increase in a country’s military expenditure ever recorded”, said Al Jazeera.

According to 2015 estimates gathered by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the United States was responsible for 36% of the entire world's military spending. Even so ...

The world faces a ‘dangerous decade’ as instability and military spending rise, a new report says The world has entered an era of increasing instability as countries around the globe boost ...

Worldwide military spending, when estimated on the basis of unweighted country averages, has declined by nearly half, from 3.6 percent of GDP during the Cold War period (1970–90) to 1.9 percent of GDP ...

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Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte has also told member countries to boost military spending as part of a new "wartime mindset". What is Nato and why was it set up? Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty ...

Lithuania is to increase its defense spending to between 5 percent and 6 percent of its GDP from 2026, matching Trump's target.

Military spending in the Middle East has increased by 14 per cent in the past year as the region seeks greater security amid continued crises, an influential UK think tank publication has ...

A new target for spending is likely to be agreed at a NATO summit in The Hague in June. That would require agreement from all 32 member states. European countries have ramped up defense budgets ...

The costs of military staffing and equipment maintenance — which currently count toward a country’s deficit figures that are strictly policed by the European Commission — could be considered alongside ...

Military production does not help long-term economic growth, Italy's central bank governor Fabio Panetta said on Thursday, as ...