Netherlands Military Spending
Netherlands military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 1.92%.
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Netherlands · military spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Netherlands recorded 1.92% for Military Spending in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.48 percentage points, from 1.44% to 1.92%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (1.33%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 1.12% in 2015 and the high was 1.92% in 2024.