Defence: Expenditure
(asked on 2nd June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the total annual expenditure on defence by (1) the UK and EU countries combined, and (2) Russia.
This question was answered on 16th June 2025
The UK Ministry of Defence has no way of verifying other countries' defence expenditure figures, nor does it endorse any specific publication.
However, based on the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute figures, the UK and EU's total defence expenditure in 2024 was $434 billion compared to an estimated $151 billion for Russia.