| United States: | $623,000,000,000/year |
| All other countries combined: | $500,000,000,000/year |
This graph is made from Globalsecurity.org’s table showing stats for every nation. The United States is the blue bar the runs all the way up the left side.
According to Nationmaster.com the US accounts for only about 37% of total world military spending. While still absurd (5 times the spending of the #2 nation), it messes up the sensational headline. It’s like we won, but didn’t cover the spread. The EU countries combined spend about half what the US does, and the US is ranked #27 if you look at it as a percentage of GDP.
Iceland completes the long tail on the right side with $0 of military expenditures. Nice job Iceland. You probably don’t have anything to worry about because you don’t use any oil, but still, I’d watch the prank calls to our president and the charging his dad with warcrimes. If he ever finds out that you have some oil and somebody shows him where you are on a globe he might send a guy over there to invade and occupy your country.
