{"id":14204,"date":"2021-04-26T07:57:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T05:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=14204"},"modified":"2021-04-26T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T05:59:11","slug":"sipri-world-military-spending-rises-to-almost-2-trillion-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=14204","title":{"rendered":"SIPRI: World military spending rises to almost $2 trillion in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sipri.org\/media\/press-release\/2021\/world-military-spending-rises-almost-2-trillion-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIPRI<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Total global military expenditure rose to $19<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">81<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0billion<\/span>\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">last year, an increase of <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2.6 per cent<\/span> in real terms<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0from 2019, according to new data published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">. The five biggest spenders in 20<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">20<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">, which together accounted for <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">62 per cent<\/span> of global military expenditure, were the United States, China, India, Russia and\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">the United Kingdom<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The 2.6 per cent increase in world military spending came in a year when global gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 4.4 per cent (October 2020 projection by the International Monetary Fund), largely due to the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, military spending as a share of GDP\u2014the military burden\u2014reached a global average of 2.4 per cent in 2020, up from 2.2 per cent in 2019. This was the biggest year-on-year rise in the military burden since the global financial and economic crisis in 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">In 2020\u00a0US\u00a0military expenditure reached an estimated $778 billion, representing an increase of 4.4\u00a0per\u00a0cent over 2019. As the world\u2019s largest military spender, the USA accounted for <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">39 per cent<\/span> of total military expenditure in 2020. This was the third consecutive year of growth in US military spending, following seven years of continuous reductions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2018The recent increases in US military spending\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">can be\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">primarily<\/span>\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">attributed\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">to<\/span>\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">heavy investment in research and development, and several long-term projects such as modernizing the US nuclear arsenal and large-scale arms procurement,\u2019 said Alexandra\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Marksteiner, a researcher with\u00a0SIPRI\u2019s Arms and Military Expenditure Programme.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIPRI: Total global military expenditure rose to $1981\u00a0billion\u00a0last year, an increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms\u00a0from 2019, according to new data published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The five biggest spenders in 2020, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=14204\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}