One country.
A third of everything.
Each circle is a country. Size is proportional to its 2024 military spending. The United States alone — the largest circle — accounts for 37% of all global military expenditure. All others share the rest.
The countries
that spend most
are not the ones dying.
A red circle appears inside each country — sized by conflict deaths 2022–2025. For the largest spenders: the red is invisible. For Ukraine, Myanmar, Palestine, Sudan: it dominates.
2022–2025
same period
Power and exposure
do not overlap.
USA: $968B spent. Zero recorded deaths.
China: $318B spent. 27 deaths.
Palestine: $0 spent. 53,776 deaths. 994 per 100k.
Ukraine: both — $66B and 154,560 dead.
The gap
is structural.
X axis: spending. Y axis: deaths. Each country moves to its coordinates. The upper-left quadrant — high spending, near-zero deaths — is where the world's largest militaries live. The lower-right — no spending, extreme exposure — is where civilians die.
per conflict death