Some data for the year 2008: (click on the image to enlarge) And this is for the year 2010: (source) More on military spending (or “defense” spending) here. Some statistics here. More maps here.
The correct answer is here. A comparison between aid spending and military spending for a selection of countries is here. I should add that I believe development aid is very important, but I don’t believe that it can solve all problems, that it doesn’t create problems, or that the amounts given should necessarily always get bigger. More […]
(source) [This post is by guest-writer Line Løvåsen]. Following up on this post, some additional information on the evolution of military conflicts and military spending. Since 2005, the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) publishes reports on trends in armed conflicts and political violence. The reports indicate a decline by around 40% in armed conflicts and […]
You are here: Home > Human Rights Statistics > Statistics on War & Conflict > Statistics on Military Spending Content 1. Total military spending by region and country 2. National military spending as percentage of global military spending, ranking of biggest spenders 3. Military spending as percentage of GDP 4. Military spending per capita 5. Number of soldiers per capita 6. Number […]
This is a follow-up of a previous post on the evolution of war in the world. Whereas the number of wars and their intensity seem to decrease over the last decades, the same cannot be said of the arms trade and the defense budgets. This makes it difficult to hope that the statistics on warfare […]
There is enough food, water and energy in the world to support a decent life for the whole of humanity, even if the numbers of humans continue to grow at their current rate. Poverty, hunger, drought and lack of energy are caused by an inefficient and unjust distribution. It’s not the size of humanity and the […]
Since not everyone is interested in the personal comments and reflections that are part and parcel of blog posts, I’ve decided to create a few static pages – more website-like pages rather than blog posts – where I copy the statistics and the data on trends and distributions of human rights violations that I blog about. This way, those statistics […]
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The data on U.S. defense spending (“defense” being of course a euphemism) are here. (I hope the connection to the issue of human rights is obvious and doesn’t need spelling out). The amounts involved are incredible, and yet you can still find national security hawks who believe that it isn’t enough, or who advocate that cutting some of […]
(source) [This post is by guest-writer Line Løvåsen]. The military-industrial complex War makes a profit (in monetary terms), peace doesn’t. President Eisenhower warned us in a speech in 1961 about the military-industrial complex (MIC): We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. (source) The MIC is […]
(source) From SIPRI: Global military spending reached a record $1,464 billion last year with the United States taking up by far the biggest share of the total. Arms shipments were up 4 percent worldwide from 2007 and 45 percent higher than in 1999. The United States accounted for 58 percent of the worldwide increase between 1999 […]
You are here: Home > Human Rights Statistics > Human Rights Statistics: An Overview of Data Sources Over the years, many institutions and organizations have established databases with information regarding the level of respect for different human rights. Every institution or organization usually focuses on one specific human right, or at most on a well-defined subset of human rights. As […]
It will be a great day when schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. More on education and on military spending.
This page contains links to the different human rights maps which I publish on this blog, now and again. These maps form part of one of my main efforts here: a data and statistical approach to human rights issues. More on this here. The maps here are usually world maps or maps for certain continents or countries. Of course they all contain information on […]
You are here: Home > Human Rights Statistics > Statistics on Poverty > Statistics on Poverty and Absolute Income Levels Content 1. Total numbers and percentages of people living in absolute poverty 2. Population growth and poverty reduction 3. Geographical breakdown of the numbers and percentages of people living in absolute poverty 4. Alternative numbers 5. A wider definition of poverty 1. […]
You are here: Home > Human Rights Statistics > Statistics on War & Conflict Content 1. Statistics on child soldiers 2. Statistics on arms trade 3. Statistics on military spending 4. Statistics on terrorism 5. Statistics on violent conflict
You are here: Home > Human Rights Statistics > Statistics on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Correlations Introduction On this page, we’ll have a look at the level and the growth rate of countries’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – or, better, their GDP per capita in order to compare like with like and to correct for increases or decreases in GDP that are caused by changes in the […]
You are here: Home > Human Rights Statistics Why do we need human rights statistics? The topic of human rights is in need of a data approach because the traditional way of dealing with it is way too anecdotal. The main advantage of such a data approach is that it can measure a general state of affairs, not limited […]
I’ve written a lot about poverty on this blog – I think it’s one of the most severe human rights violations – and therefore it seemed appropriate to have a post which summarizes the topic. more poverty bad governance absence of democracy corruption rights violations no rule of law economic causes economic stagnation/recession lack of […]
