Visualizing America's Shocking Defense Spending
![Visualizing America's Shocking Defense Spending Visualizing America's Shocking Defense Spending](https://5ux.com/sites/5ux.com/files/styles/medium_250/public/resize/remote/a4351000cce7089dbc255c8bd69152d6-1242x778.png?itok=9-9aZTnV)
Wouldn’t it be a strange world to live in if 50% of military spending was paid for by just 5% of the population? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist
Every year, the United States government spends the equivalent of $3,300 for each working citizen on its military budget. In aggregate, this grand total of $610 billion in defense spending amounts to about half of the dollars globally spent on the military.