Originally Posted by
T28B
Esteemed Colleagues:
NATO's report on defense burden sharing and spending
is here
The UK meets or exceeds the 2.0% target (guideline), and the French don't quite reach it, if you look at the information covering the years 2014 to 2022.
(Table 4 has UK listed as 2.13%(2014) and 2.12%(2022), while France listed as 1.80%(2014) and 1.92%(2022))
The report is dated 27 June 2022. There a quite a few graphs and charts worth considering, at your leisure.
That of course does not take the overall GDP into account, The U.K. GDP is higher than Frances so in real terms the amount of actual money spent will be greater, similarly Germany has a Higher GDP than the U.K. so again even if their spending is less than the 2% in real terms they may have spent a larger amount on defence compared to the U.K.