{"id":11598,"date":"2009-08-05T13:23:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2009-11-29T23:36:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:36:19","slug":"global-militaryspending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/05\/global-militaryspending\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Military Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica H.S. sent in a <a href=\"http:\/\/lefarkins.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/world-defense-spending.html\">link<\/a> to this map showing global military spending as a % of GDP as as a % of total world military spending (much larger version available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualeconomics.com\/military-spending-worldwide\/\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11601\" title=\"ve-military-spending2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/ve-military-spending22.jpg\" alt=\"ve-military-spending2\" width=\"499\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I knew the U.S. spent a ginormous total amount on the military, but I didn&#8217;t know we account for right at half of all military spending. And I would have thought China would have more than 8%.<\/p>\n<p>Commenter George has a good point that I really should have thought of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saying we account for half of all military spending is misleading. It costs a great deal more to construct military equipment in the U.S. so, of course we spend a larger number of dollars than China would. In China a submarine costs many fewer dollars to build. Of these illustrations the percent of GDP is by far the most informative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for pointing that out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica H.S. sent in a link to this map showing global military spending as a % of GDP as as a % of total world military spending (much larger version available here): I knew the U.S. spent a ginormous total amount on the military, but I didn&#8217;t know we account for right at half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,260,309],"class_list":["post-11598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-international-comparisons","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17326,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions\/17326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}