Top 15 Countries By Military Spending (1914-2018)

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posted Apr 24 @ 11:43 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link

Using data from the Correlates of War Project and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, this bar chart race shows the annual military spending of the world’s top spending countries from the start of WWI in 1914 to 2018. See also military spending info from Our World in Data.