Highest is probably North Korea. They’re probably at like 40%. But I guess no data is hiding this
patrickjpatten on
If people truly understood what we spend there’d actually be politics that would help our country. https://overtaxed.vercel.app/
Marvellover13 on
What’s going on with Algeria and Lebanon? (It’s supposed to be from 2023 and nothing major happened in Lebanon
CantKBDwontKBD on
Now compare the gdps of the countries and turn the % spend into actual dollars….
Edit: reality is that US spend eclipses any other country by miles for the simple reason that the GDP is that much higher.
China is somewhere like 1/5 or 1/10 in spend compared to the US.
Percentages are largely irrelevant
Kevin7650 on
Surprise surprise most of NATO not carrying their own weight.
Western-Trainer-347 on
North Korea is actually about the same as Ukraine. And they’re not even at war.
Filthiest_Tleilaxu on
South Africa:
elicopter1905 on
egypt is that low?
impressive
but i doubt it honestly
Interesting_Dooty on
China’s military spending is likely much higher than represented here.
Paparage on
The way some people talk, about U.S. military spending. You would swear it took up like 50% of our budget.
Affectionate_Emu4660 on
However much the US spends on military I never realized it wouldn’t be such an unreasonable fraction of its GDP.. Europe needs to step the fuck up though
My 2cts is military spending is very much a prisoner’s dilemma; not spending much only works out if everyone is committed to spending very little. But since you cannot guarantee that for every other power— might as well
The color edges are shit, of course, but shouldn’t Russia have a different color because it belongs to the category between 5 and 6 %, and the color on the map is from 6-7%?
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Highest – Ukraine 36.7%
Lowest – Haiti 0.1%
[Tap the country to see the exact value, here](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/military-spending-as-a-share-of-gdp-sipri?tab=table&country=~SDN)
what’s up with saudi arabia?
Whats up with algeria?? Whom they wanna fight
Highest is probably North Korea. They’re probably at like 40%. But I guess no data is hiding this
If people truly understood what we spend there’d actually be politics that would help our country. https://overtaxed.vercel.app/
What’s going on with Algeria and Lebanon? (It’s supposed to be from 2023 and nothing major happened in Lebanon
Now compare the gdps of the countries and turn the % spend into actual dollars….
Edit: reality is that US spend eclipses any other country by miles for the simple reason that the GDP is that much higher.
China is somewhere like 1/5 or 1/10 in spend compared to the US.
Percentages are largely irrelevant
Surprise surprise most of NATO not carrying their own weight.
North Korea is actually about the same as Ukraine. And they’re not even at war.
South Africa:
egypt is that low?
impressive
but i doubt it honestly
China’s military spending is likely much higher than represented here.
The way some people talk, about U.S. military spending. You would swear it took up like 50% of our budget.
However much the US spends on military I never realized it wouldn’t be such an unreasonable fraction of its GDP.. Europe needs to step the fuck up though
My 2cts is military spending is very much a prisoner’s dilemma; not spending much only works out if everyone is committed to spending very little. But since you cannot guarantee that for every other power— might as well
CCP doesn’t accurately report their military budget for China. [https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4624666-chinas-real-military-budget-has-quietly-become-almost-as-big-as-ours/](https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4624666-chinas-real-military-budget-has-quietly-become-almost-as-big-as-ours/)
The color edges are shit, of course, but shouldn’t Russia have a different color because it belongs to the category between 5 and 6 %, and the color on the map is from 6-7%?
When did morroco become two