Top 15 countries with largest share of military spending in the world. Evolution from 1914 to 2018.

[Snake Plissken]

[yonder]

1. Very cool. Unfortunately it highlights the US dominance in military spending.

Dynamic, it's almost like watching a movie. There is an interesting post-WW2 spike in Polish military spending. I don't know what that's about.

[cp]

2. Brilliant, utterly fascinating

And what a waste of resources.

Surprises (to me): China not prevalent until very late, Russia spending so much for so many years, Saudi Arabia up and coming. Not proud of United States being #1 so much. Again, such a waste of resources.

[Clash City Rocker]

3. I was a little surprised to see how much Japan was spending on the military in the 80s and 90s

[alwaysinasnit]

4. Thanks for posting. It empasizes how grotesque our military spending is, especially compared

to the other nations.

[kag]

5. While it shows the U.S. "dominance" in military spending...

it, unfortunately, doesn't show how much of that is waste. Our military spills more money every year than our country spends on all of our social programs combined.

It also doesn't show how much of that is paid to make military contractors obscenely wealthy, and who then turn around and use a bunch of that obscene wealth to bribe...er...I mean lobby politicians to keep the system running "normally".

Don't get me wrong. I think it's a great graph, and the animation is fabulous. I wonder if they could do another one to compare how much each Representative and Senator is paid in bribes...er...I mean donations to keep the military from being audited.

[TomVilmer]

7. Correction: Your country spends so much more on social programs than on the military

In combined spending from state, federal and local sources, social programs gets around five times more than the military.
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/

A lot of that military spending is happily lost on the way to the war. Many arms programs are willfully wasted on never ending projects with the only purpose of creating jobs - as welfare programs to swing states, to pay for votes and local political support.

[kag]

8. Seriously?

You're trying to "correct" me by pointing to a website that looks like some right-winger pulled some numbers out of his ass, and then spent a whole five minutes trying to make a site that looks "official" (but couldn't be bothered to NOT make it a .com ).

Anyone who believes that my country spends more on "social programs" (which you clearly define differently than I do) than on the military is smoking something interesting.

Also, if you truly believe that "arms" manufacturers are only in it for the great jobs they create, well, I think you're on the wrong website. You make it sound like military contractors themselves are some kind of social program.

I'm going to just assume you're a troll or a Russian bot or something.

Bye.

[TomVilmer]

9. And I am going to assume...

... nothing about your person. I just likes facts. And hates war. So I would be in my interest to make military expenses look very high and terrible. But facts beats opinions, even my own. You should try that someday.

In my link spending data is from official government sources. Federal spending data comes from the president’s budget. All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau. If you do you have any clue where your own "facts" come from, then please share them with me - links and all.

[Karadeniz]

6. I seem to be missing China.