Defence: Expenditure

(asked on 26th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much they have spent on defence as a share of gross domestic product in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Earl of Minto Portrait
Earl of Minto
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 12th April 2024

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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