The United States, China, and Russia together accounted for 56% of the world's total military expenditures in 2022, a year that saw global military spending rise to a record $2.24 trillion, according to SIPRIorg's latest annual analysis.
An annual analysis published Monday revealed that global military spending rose to an all-time high of over $2.2 trillion last year, driven largely by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Western response, as well as the steadily increasing Pentagon budget in the United States.showed a 3.7% overall increase in worldwide military expenditures to $2.24 trillion in 2022, including a 13% rise in Europe—the continent's sharpest increase in three decades—amid Russia's war on Ukraine.
;“Total global #MilitarySpending increased by 3.7% in real terms in 2022, to reach a new high of $2240 billion;—the highest level ever recorded in SIPRI data. New SIPRI data out now.\n\nPress Release ;➡️https://t.co/CUMd384wvl\nExplore the interactive graphic ;➡️https://t.co/Idxdu8MNQ1;𠇚mong European nations, significant increases in military spending were observed in Finland , Lithuania , Sweden , and Poland .
The United States remained by far the world's biggest military spender, with its $877 in expenditures accounting for 39% of the global total in 2022. The U.S.
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