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In 1990, state military spending was estimated at US$954 billion worldwide. Of this total, 45% was spent by the United States, followed by the Russian Federation at 6%, then Germany and the United Kingdom at 5% each. These territories individually spent more than any of the following regions: Central Africa, Southeastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Asia, Asia Pacific, Eastern Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and Japan.
The highest military spending per person living in a territory was in Middle Eastern territories such as Kuwait and Qatar. In Kuwait 10,000 times more was spent per person living there than in Ghana. |
"When the rich wage war it is the poor who die." Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951 |
Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide state military spending in 1990 that was spent by that territory.
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All of the data we use is estimated; 
Open Population Map for comparison