Sipri, a standard increase in global military spending in 2024

Valerio Palumbu – Vatikan Cydad

Since the end of the Cold War, this noticeable growth in global military spending has not been recorded. The record number of $ 2718 billion in 2024, which was published today in the report of the International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), shows a serious increase of 9.4 % compared to the previous year. The trend of growth that has been without interruption over the past ten years, but in 2024 it has shown a real recovery due to wars that hide many regions of the world.

Abandoning “the logic of war”

Military spending, which reaches 2.5 % of global GDP, increased in all regions of the world. Europe and the Middle East highlight in the regions where expenditures have increased more importantly, but the drift is global, which confirms the dangerous “domino influence” caused by “World War III into parts” that Pope Francis has been condemned several times in Pontva in parallel with the call to abandon the “logic of war” by weapons. “The redemption has been produced since the beginning of this century, and since then, more than repeated,” says Francesco Vicamara, Milex.org Observatory representative and Italian Network for Peace and Dispution, in the Vatican data. According to Vignarca, the deportation is clarified today as a competition between the systems that want to prevail over others. Equality to “solve” the problems they face.

Europe increases the world

The SIPRI report shows that the five countries spent more in defense – the United States, China, Russia, Germany and India – represent 60 % of the total world, with joint expenditures of $ 1,635 billion. More than 100 countries around the world have increased their military expenditures by 2024. “With governments giving more and more priority to military security, often at the expense of other budget areas, these economic and social decisions can have great implications for societies in the coming years,” says Xiao Liang, a researcher in military expenditures and the production of arms products.

Europe appears as the most obvious continent with the growth of military spending. “For the first time since its reunification, Germany has become the country of Western Europe with the highest military expenses,” says Lorenzo Skazo, a Siphrie researcher. The trend that aims to increase, taking into account the last decision of Bundestag in Berlin that supported the constitutional amendments to abandon the “roof” of debt for military spending. “The latest policies adopted in Germany and many other European countries indicate that Europe has entered a period of increase in military spending, which may continue to an unexpected future,” Scazato added. Military spending in Europe, including Russia, has increased by 17 %, which exceeds the level reached at the end of the Cold War. All countries of the continent, with the exception of Malta, have increased defense expenditures. Russia increased its military expenses by 38 % year on an annual basis, to 7.1 % of GDP, while Ukraine, due to the struggle that has been extended for more than three years, is allocated 34 % of the GDP of the sector. Regardless of the two countries participating directly in the conflict, many European countries recorded unprecedented increases in military spending. Germany increased these expenses by 28 %; Poland, at 31 %.

The typical transformation is necessary

All NATO countries increased their military spending in 2024, with the total spending on the Atlantic Alliance reached 15506 billion dollars, or 55 % of the total world. The United States, with the aim of maintaining a “strategic advantage” on China and Russia, increased its military expenses by 5.7 % on a year in 2024, representing 37 % of the total world. China confirms, with an increase of 7 %, its position as a second country in the world that spends more in this sector. There was also a significant increase for Japan, while India remained the fifth country with the highest military expenses in the world, and Myanmar registered a growth between 66 % in 2024. Finally, with regard to the Middle East, Israel recorded an increase of 65 % in military spending, which is the largest annual growth since the six -day war of 1967. In this sense, the military spending expert asks the United Nations Conference on the United Nations Conference The weapon in 2025, 35 years after the last time, in conjunction with the eighties of Hiroshima and Nagasaki tragedies.