{"id":505864,"date":"2026-04-26T21:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/spain-increases-its-military-spending-by-50-and-exceeds-2-of-gdp-after-two-decades\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:32:35","slug":"spain-increases-its-military-spending-by-50-and-exceeds-2-of-gdp-after-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/spain-increases-its-military-spending-by-50-and-exceeds-2-of-gdp-after-two-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain increases its military spending by 50% and exceeds 2% of GDP after two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Copenhagen.- <\/strong>Spain increased its military spending by 50% last year to $40.2 billion (\u20ac34.265 billion), the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) noted in a report on Monday.\n\nSIPRI highlighted that it is the first time since 1994 that the amount allocated to armaments exceeds 2% of the Spanish gross domestic product (GDP) (2.1% in this case).\n\nThe rise in Spanish military spending is part of a general increase in all<a href=\"https:\/\/efe.com\/mundo\/2026-04-09\/trump-puede-sacar-estados-unidos-alianza-otan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;NATO member European countries<\/a>, pressured by the United States and in the context of the war in Ukraine, which caused investment on the continent to reach 864,000 million dollars (736,000 million euros), 14% more.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-el-mayor-crecimiento-desde-la-guerra-fria\">The Biggest Growth Since the Cold War<\/h3>\n\n\nThis is the largest annual growth in military spending in Central and Western Europe since the end of the Cold War.\n\nIn the last decade, Spanish military spending increased by 122%, according to SIPRI.\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We recommend reading<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/enlaces\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"491852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">: Strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake shakes northern Japan amid alert for possible major earthquake<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/category\/internacionales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\nSpain ranks 15th globally, two places up from 2024, with 1.4% of global military spending.\n\nThe report reflects a 2.9% increase in global military spending in real terms last year, due to increased investment in Europe and Asia-Oceania, despite the fall in the United States.\n\nThe total figure rose to $2.89 trillion (\u20ac2.45 trillion), the highest level since 2009 and equivalent to 2.5% of global gross domestic product (GDP).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen.- Spain increased its military spending by 50% last year to $40.2 billion (\u20ac34.265 billion), the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) noted in a report on Monday. SIPRI highlighted that it is the first time since 1994 that the amount allocated to armaments exceeds 2% of the Spanish gross domestic product (GDP) (2.1% in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-27B6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}