Original source: https://www.kaitseministeerium.ee/en/objectives-activities/defence-budget

Local snapshot (archived 2026-07-03): full-page PDF committed at sources/military/_archive/estonia-defence-budget-2024/estonia-defence-budget-2024.pdf.

Estonia defence budget 2024

Key fairness-tier contrast: a nation whose population (~1.36M) is close to the City of Edmonton (~1.19M), yet which spends on defence at a scale that dwarfs EPS. - Estonia 2024 defence budget: ~EUR 1.33 billion (first time above 3% of GDP). In USD that is roughly $1.4-1.45B. - Takeaway for the fairness tier: an Edmonton-sized SOVEREIGN NATION defending an eastern-NATO border spends ~3x what EPS spends to police one city. This shows the shock comparison is not purely cherry-picked at the small-army end — even population-matched real militaries under active threat are in a different category from a municipal police budget only when they are on a war footing; the shock-tier small nations (Belize, Fiji, etc.) at $12-72M are the true peers of EPS by budget SIZE.