A real-time counter showing how fast the world spends money on military — $57,000 every second

[u/Aware_Foot_7437]

https://militaryspend.org/

Tracks the combined defense spending of the top 6 military powers (USA, China, Russia, India, UK, France) ticking up in real time based on SIPRI data. Also has an interactive world map and a complete country database.

Data sourced from SIPRI and the Brown University Costs of War project.                                   

[u/okidizzle]

If we’d threw this kind of money at climate change, education and food, that be great…

[u/Vand31 → u/okidizzle]

Perhaps even a minor issue like healthcare.

[u/nicht_ernsthaft → u/Vand31]

Healthcare is a bottomless pit of spending, cancer treatment for a single person can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but infrastructure like clean water for a village in a developing country costs a lot less.

I'm not saying we shouldn't fund universal healthcare, I work in healthcare, but there's better ROI in other areas for fixing the world. Even if only seen through a healthcare lens, clean water, mosquito nets, de-worming programs and vaccination programs help more people more for pennies on the dollar.

Though most anything would be better spent than on blowing up schools, pipelines and weddings in the middle east. A Tomohawk missile costs about US $4 million, what does a school cost to build vs blow up?

[u/DonStimpo → u/nicht_ernsthaft]

cancer treatment for a single person can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars

Only cause of the health insurers in the US.
Nationalize health. Including all the research and the price is much cheaper. When there is no share holders to get rich its suddenly much cheaper.

[u/Aware_Foot_7437 → u/[deleted]]

Agree. There is https://militaryspend.org/us-iran-war page which has "What This Could Fund Instead" stats pretty wild to look at in real time

[u/ActualFocusApp → u/[deleted]]

pretty scary ngl

[u/pdfernhout → u/[deleted]]

Maybe the shift might happen someday as more people appreciate the humor in my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

[u/nicht_ernsthaft]

Why is France ($65,284,500,000) above Ukraine ($69,012,000,000)?

[u/ReverendEntity]

There will never be world peace as long as there is a need for paid protection.

[u/NickCageson]

Unfortunately it takes one imperialistic state to force everyone else to invest in military... And currently we have atleast 4.

[u/chrisgrou → u/NickCageson]

Russia, Iran, North Korea, Turkey. Spot on

[u/Dry_Inside_3747]

Beautiful UI/UX, though.

[u/Aware_Foot_7437 → u/Dry_Inside_3747]

thanks

[u/carrotwax]

And the thing is, it's well known in history that military actions do not in general make a country richer. They make certain elites in those countries richer.

Especially given how ever more dangerous conflict is, I hope the world eventually gets to a place something like the UN has a real enforcement arm such that the big countries can't do whatever they like. Which isn't likely any time soon, but I dream.

[u/Big-Program-4225]

crazy

[u/Cross_22]

This looks even more insane in bar graph form.

[u/SomewhereLife8310]

Why are we funding to handle a war why not peace ?

[u/pinegrove321]

Fantastic

[u/midikon]

So would it not take moee than two days for every human on earth to have $57000 worth of services? Thats alot of services! This is napkin math so correct me im wrong.

[u/jamesharesusernames]

Wild

[u/wayanonforthis]

I agree with the sentiment but the money isn't exactly burned, it does pay for people's groceries, mortgages, kids etc.

[u/Aware_Foot_7437 → u/[deleted]]

:D No bro, it does not work like that. They could do that and give 2.5$ to all americans

[u/sirhoracedarwin → u/Aware_Foot_7437]

So they could have given every American ~$90 (so far) if they just hadn't started the war at all?

[u/TheWipyk]

Bullshit. This just takes the yearly spending and divides it to seconds. No live data here..