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The cost of world military expenditure: request for help Click HERE to see the diagram Bruce Kent mentioned this diagram in a speech in St Albans last November. It was published in the United States in 1991. The chart as a whole represented total world military expenditure each year, estimated at $1 trillion. Each square represented $ 1 billion, or a tenth of one per cent of world military expenditure each year. The authors explained the diagram as follows: The above are annual costs of various global programs for solving the major human need and environmental problems facing humanity. Each program is the amount needed to accomplish the goal for all in need in the world. Their combined total cost is approximately 25% of the world's total annual military expenditure. Bruce wants a more up to date version comparing estimated world military expenditure with the costs of meeting major needs in the world. He had contacted the organisation from which he got the diagram, but has had no reply. Can anyone in Radical Statistics help? Is the original diagram valid? If not, is there another way of making this comparison? |