Global military spending in 2022 continued to grow for the eighth consecutive year, reaching an "all-time high" of 2,240 billion dollars.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which revealed the data, this represents 2.2% of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

According to the document, the United States, China and Russia were the three countries that spent the most in 2022 - accounting for 56% of global military spending.

For SIPRI researcher Nan Taian, "the continuous increase in global military spending in recent years is a sign that we live in an increasingly insecure world". "States are strengthening their military forces in response to the deteriorating security environment, which is unlikely to improve in the near future," he warned.

The biggest increase in military spending was in Central and Western Europe (+13%) to a total of 313 billion euros, which is considered the biggest rise in 30 years, since the end of the Cold War, and which was largely due to the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, says the SIPRI report released today.

"Russia spent 86.4 billion dollars in 2022, which represents an increase of 9.2% compared to the previous year. The amount invested is equivalent to 4.1% of Russia's GDP," the report estimates.

In Ukraine, military spending amounted to 44 billion dollars, which means an increase of 640%, "the largest ever recorded by SIPRI for a single country in a single year".

"The invasion of Ukraine had an immediate impact on decisions about military spending in Central and Western Europe, which included multi-year plans by several governments," said Diego Lopes da Silva, senior researcher at SIPRI, also quoted in a statement.

However, the United States continues to lead the countries that invest the most in military defense, with 877 billion dollars in 2022, which represented 39% of the world's total spending.