Militaty expenditure per country for 2023. Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

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by Sotirios_Raptis

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  2. Spare a thought for how wild the percentage gdp and per capita figures for Ukraine are. The country is dirt poor, no wonder they want to align with Europe it’d be like Poland’s glow up on steroids.

  3. I presume that they’ve converted them all to USD at the exchange rate of the given year. China’s military budget has been increasing significantly faster than what’s being shown here.

  5. A lot of Russia’s war spending is funneled through budget posts that don’t look like military spending on the surface. In the 2024 budget, the state will spend 30-40% of its budget on the war.

  6. Officially there’s no South Korea. There’s the Republic of Korea

  7. Meanwhile in Ireland we have the people’s fishing boats standing up to Russian incursions

  8. What a waste of money that this is necessary.

    At the end of the Cold War, Europe thought it had entered an era of peace. No one saw the point of investing in the army anymore.
    Southern European countries had their economic problems after the introduction of the euro. The Northern European countries focused on peaceful relations rather than waging war against potential enemies. (We enforced peace on our eastern border by stimulating the economies of the former Soviet countries and moving the EU border east). And the largest economic power in Europe, Germany, had its own historical reasons for not wanting to strengthen its military.

    A bit naive in retrospect, given the past 2 years.

    The financial crisis in 2008 led to even more budgetary choices and a reduction in defense.

    After Russia seized Crimea in 2014, NATO countries agreed to the Defense Investment Pledge. This means, among other things, that every country must meet at least the 2% standard as of 2024. That indeed led to an increase in military expenditure in the past 10 years.

  9. If your graph title has the word “militaty”, I am going to have very little confidence in the quality of your work.

  11. Out of curiosity, I checked the numbers for Finland.

    From 2021 to 2022, increase was 30,47%. From 2022 to 2023, 60,88%.

    Total increase 2021 to 2023, 109,91%

  12. It is shameful that Trump is right regarding NATO countries, they need to start pulling their weight and increase military spending. Russian war machine is well underway and Europe is still paralyzed by “fear of escalation”

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