Countries Resized by Military Spending Since 1850
The world map redrawn so that every country and territory is the size of its military spending, all 176 years from 1850 to 2025 in two and a half minutes.
The full videoCountries Resized by Military Spending Since 1850Data sources
Correlates of War National Material Capabilities (v7) with national budgets and accounts; Global Military Spending Dataset (Barnum, Fariss, Markowitz and Morales); SIPRI Military Expenditure Database (2026); borders from Natural Earth.
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