Portugal reached defence spending of 2% of GDP in 2025, ahead of the planned schedule.
62% confidence
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The 'ahead of schedule' element is explicitly supported: Portugal had previously expected to reach the 2% NATO target only by the end of 2029 (Reuters, 2025-06-05).
As of mid-2025 the target was still framed as a plan/intention ('to meet', 'if possible this year'), not yet a confirmed outturn; the actual 2025 figure was not extracted from NATO's official Defence Expenditure report, whose Portugal-specific percentage could not be retrieved within the search budget.
Academic literature (MDPI, 2025) notes Portuguese military spending had consistently remained below 2% of GDP over past decades and was still below 2% in 2024, which is why reaching 2% in 2025 is presented as an acceleration.
The exact figure (~2% of GDP) is corroborated mainly by a single independent secondary source (Reuters) plus non-official tracking data; no primary official source (NATO country table / national budget) with the precise Portugal 2025 percentage could be confirmed here.
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PrimaryNATO — Defence Expenditure of NATO Countries (2014-2025)Note to the table: '* These Allies have national laws or political agreements which call for 2% of GDP or more to be spent on defence annually, consequently future estimates are ...'. (The Portugal-specific 2025 percentage could not be extracted from this document within the search budget.)
Tertiarymilitaryspend.org — Portugal Military Spending 2025Portugal 2025 defense spending: ~$6.3B (2% of GDP), first time hitting NATO's benchmark. 'Portugal reached 2% of GDP in 2025 for the first time, with defense spending of approximately €5.9 billion.'