Since 1945, more than 22 million people have been killed in wars. 13 million of them were civilians.
Number of jobs created for each $1 million spent on:
Missile production
9
Military aircraft
14
Cleaning up pollution
16.5
Local public transport
21.5
Education
63
Five per cent of the world's annual military spending could pay for all of the following:
Reforestation: planting several billion trees ($2 billion)
Providing safe drinking water for the one-third of the world's population that lacks it ($5 billion)
Restoration of degraded farmland ($2 billion)
Research into replacement of ozone-destroying CFCs ($1 billion)
Reduction of air pollution ($5 billion)
Conservation of Third World natural assets ($4 billion)
Family planning services for 100 million couples ($6 billion)
Cleaning up hazardous wastes ($10 billion)
Research into environmental protection ($10 billion)
Industrialised countries' government-funded research and development:
Environmental pollution
1%
Energy
4%
Military
47%
Major arms exporters, 1969-88:
USSR
$236 billion
USA
$149 billion
France
$43 billion
UK
$23 billion
West Germany
$18 billion
China
$15 billion
Czechoslovakia
$14 billion
Poland
$13 billion
Italy
$11 billion
Switzerland
$5 billion Military expenditure and social/environmental development (1987 ranking)
Country
Military expenditure
Education
Health
Environment
USA
1
8
16
135
USSR
2
15
30
136
France
3
15
11
129
West Germany
4
21
9
125
UK
5
16
22
131
Japan
6
14
12
127
Iran
7
72
76
95
Italy
8
40
23
114
Saudi Arabia
9
69
57
137
China
10
73
72
122
India
11
102
96 115
Iraq
12
74
76
108
World military expenditures per soldier: $36,000
World education expenditures per student: $1100
Human resources (1987)
# of military personnel
# of teachers
# of doctors
World
26,620,000
36,710,000
5,024,600
Developed countries
10,246,000
10,731,000
3,079,500
Underdeveloped countries
16,374,000
25,979,000
1,945,100
From 1978 to 1988, Third World countries spent 23% more on buying foreign weapons than they received in economic development aid
US ranking
Military expenditure: 1
Military technology: 1
Military bases: 1
Military training of foreign forces: 1
Naval fleet: 1
Combat aircraft: 1
Nuclear warheads and bombs: 1
Nuclear tests: 1
Arms exports: 2
Armed forces: 3
Per cent population with safe water: 1
Per cent school-age children in school: 1
Literacy rate: 4
Per capita expenditure on education: 8
GNP per capita: 8
Maternal mortality rate: 13
Per capita public expenditure for health: 14
Life expectancy: 15
Infant mortality rate: 18
Population per doctor: 18
Under 5 mortality rate: 22
Per cent infants with low birth weight: 36
Fuel consumption of military equipment
M-1 Abrams tank: 47 litres/kilometre
F-15 jet, peak thrust: 908 litres/minute
F-4 Phantom fighter/bomber: 6359 litres/hour
Battleship: 10,810 litres/hour
B-52 bomber: 13,671 litres/hour
Aircraft carrier: 21,300 litres/hour
Carrier battle group: 1,589,700 litres/day
Armoured division: 2,271,000 litres/day US military carbon emissions in 1988 totalled 46 million tons, 3.5% of the US total
West German armed forces contribution to air pollution
Carbon monoxide: 6.5%
Nitrogen oxides: 5.4%
Hydrocarbons: 3.9%
Sulphur dioxide: 1.3%
Equivalents
One main battle tank
1000 classrooms for 30,000 children
One-half day's
world military spending
WHO program to wipe out malaria
One jet fighter
40,000 village pharmacies
One destroyer
Electricity for 9 million people
6 months' military spending
Ten-year program providing food requirements for all underdeveloped countries
Stealth bomber program
World clean water program for 6.5 years
Sources: World military and social expenditures 1991, State of the World 1991, Stop Aidex Campaign