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Report: What percentage of GDP has the UK spent on defence?

In 2010, the UK spent 2.47% of GDP on defence, last year it was 2.28%.

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is more often used by the government of a single country to measure its economic health

NATO’s published figures for UK defence spending as a percentage of GDP spend since 2010 are below.

Year Share of GDP
2010 2.47
2011 2.38
2012 2.16
2013 2.24
2014 2.14
2015 2.03
2016 2.09
2017 2.08
2018 2.10
2019 2.08
2020 2.35
2021 2.29
2022 2.29
2023 2.28
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