Stockholm – Global military spending rose to almost three trillion dollars last year, according to the peace research institute Sipri. Global defense spending climbed 2.9 percent to $2.89 trillion in 2025, the organization said on Monday. This corresponds to 2.5 percent of global economic output and is the highest value since 2009. In the USA, however, spending fell by 7.5 percent to $954 billion. The experts cited US President Donald Trump’s stop of new financial military aid to Ukraine as the main reason. In the three previous years, US aid to the country totaled $127 billion.
