The Global Timeline

Move through documented military spending and recorded wars. Redirected uses are alternatives, not a second total.

World military spending, now

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Year: 2024

Click the chart to jump to a year · 1988–2025 SIPRI

Jump to year

Dots: recorded conflicts this year. White ring: a sourced cost study exists. Click a point. SIPRI is a country's military budget, not the price of that war.

Documented spending

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Documented military spending (SIPRI)

Recorded conflicts

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Awaiting catalog

Country

Nation Explorer

Select a country and a period. The figures are SIPRI military spending, shown as alternative civilian uses — not added together.

From To

"Just 3% of the recent US military budget could end starvation on earth." — World Beyond War

Localized potential over 1 year(s)

Honesty calculator

Critics argue that military spending yields civilian spin-offs (like GPS). Set a spillover rate, then compare it with investing the same capital directly into peaceful science.

Spillover rate: 10%

Military trickle-down $0

Direct innovation multiplier $0

Economic warfare

Extraction reversal

Colonial extraction and illicit outflows are a different layer from SIPRI and war-cost studies. Each card below is a named estimate. They are not added to each other, and they are not a $40 trillion continent total.

Pick a region. The figures are sourced studies — methods and years differ, so they must not be summed.

Ledger

Archive of conflict

Correlates of War (1816–1945) and UCDP/PRIO (1946–2025). Cost studies, when they exist, show 2024 US consumer dollars beside the published figure. They are not added to SIPRI, and they are not added to each other.

Select a year to open the historical conflict record.

Recorded harm

Human Score

Not one total. Deaths, displacement, and children in conflict zones are different methods. They are not added to each other, to SIPRI, or to Extraction. The green row is a food-ration counterfactual — not a saved life.

If that year’s military spending had bought food instead

Documented mechanisms

Greed and corruption

Not a world corruption total. Named UN figures, SIPRI arms-transfer volume, one reconstruction audit, and one judicial case. They are not added to each other, to SIPRI military spending, or to Extraction.