This chart shows how far NATO allies must wander to get 5% of GDP

Before the start of the annual NATO summit this week, allies reportedly agreed on Sunday To travel with defense expenses up to 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035.. Reaching this goal, however, is another matter.

5% number consists of 3.5% of GDP, which should be spent on “pure” defense, and an additional 1.5% of GDP goes to security -related infrastructure, such as cybernetic capabilities and intelligence.

Movement of the Western Military Alliance on Sunday – when NATO ambassadors reportedly agreed generally on a compromise text about the increase in expenses – they showed that the Member States were ready, at least in public to agree Requirements in Washington so that allies attract the weight When it comes to defense and security.

But one chart, based on NATO estimates on the defense of members in 2024, shows what a high order will be 5% target for 32 Member States, and some even tried to fulfill the pact for 2014. Spend 2% of GDP for defense.

Defense expenses have long been a thorny object for NATO members and a lasting source of irritation for US President Donald Trump, who was demanding that the Allies double their expenses from 2% to 4% of GDP all the way in 2018.

Expenses on NATO defense have increased rapidly among NATO members since Trump was the last in power.

Then, and probably at the peak of the irritation of the White House leader with the block, only six Member States have achieved 2% of the goal, including American times, changed; Until 2024, 23 members reached a 2%threshold, According to NATO data.

While some have significantly exceeded this goal – such as Poland, Estonia, the USA, Latvia and Greece – the main economies, including Canada, Spain and Italy, remained below the threshold of the contribution.

No NATO member has so far achieved a 5% goal of expenses, and some are very likely that they are becoming now when it comes to reaching this milestone.

Spain has already imposed an increase in expenses with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that Madrid will not have to achieve a 5% goal, because he would have to spend only 2.1% of GDP to meet the basic military requirements of NATO, Reuters reported.

“We fully respect the justified desire for other countries to increase their investments in defense, but we do not intend to do it,” said Sanchez on the address of Spanish television, according to a press agency. Sanchez was reported last week to call the journey, not only “Unjustified, but also the opposite effect to the intended one.”

Even countries that tow a line for 5%, such as Germany and the United Kingdom, which say they will tell for a journey, He could achieve thisGiven the economic pressure at home. Great Britain reportedly asked for a 3-year delay in the journey. CNBC asked the British government for comment, but it has not yet received an answer.

Other countries are ahead of the game when it comes to wandering. Poland, on the eastern flank of the alliance and the nervous war of Russia in neighboring Ukraine, He says that soon the issue of 5% of GDP for defense is already 5% of GDP.

Meanwhile, Estonia, which also shares the border with Russia, approved the investment program in the defense, which is It is expected to raise its annual defense budget up to an average of 5.4% of GDP from 2026 to 2029.

The uneven geographical distribution of the increase in military expenditure in European countries can still cause friction at the summit this week, Carsten Nickel, deputy director of TEneo advisory research on Monday.

“However, greater defense expenses in any case only concern a deeper challenge for transatlantic relations,” he said, with friction related to dividing military weights, trade deficits and China's policy also threatening the relationship between allies.

– CNBC's Ganesh Rao And April Roach contributed to this story.