Public opinion survey on security, defence and NATO conducted in 2023 among the population of Alliance countries

In 2023, as in previous years, NATO conducted a survey to find out how the citizens of Alliance countries view defence and security issues. A large number of respondents consider that being a member of NATO reduces the risk of attack by a third country, and the proportion of respondents in favour of increasing defence budgets has risen by five points in one year, to 40 %. In addition, 63 % of those surveyed were in favour of their country continuing to help Ukraine. The interest of the document lies in the various questions asked and in the country-by-country breakdown of the responses.