World military spending statistics

[muriel_volestrangler]

Total world military expenditure in 2012 was $1.75 trillion. This is equivalent to 2.5 per cent of global GDP.

Between 2011 and 2012, spending fell by 0.5 per cent in real terms. This was the first decrease since 1998. Spending in 2012 was still higher in real terms than the peak near the end of the cold war.
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The USA’s military expenditure fell by 6 per cent in real terms in 2012, but it was still 69 per cent higher than in 2001.
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More than four-fifths of all military expenditure in 2012 was made by 15 states

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The USA spent 39% of the total - about equal to the next 11 combined. In real terms, the USA spent 32% more in 2012 than in 2003, the year of invading Iraq.

[upsidedownforklift]

1. Extra cost.

And that is only the expenditure, with much of those millions being spent on bombs to destroy the place, I wonder what the real cost is?

[gopiscrap]

2. Interesting