{"id":3584,"date":"2018-05-18T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:08","slug":"global-military-spending-is-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/05\/18\/global-military-spending-is-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Global military spending is rising."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest annual report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (<em>SIPRI<\/em>).\u00a0 Total world <em>military expenditure<\/em> rose to $1739 billion in 2017, a marginal increase of 1.1 per cent in real terms from 2016.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/publications\/2018\/sipri-fact-sheets\/trends-world-military-expenditure-2017\">The full text can be downloaded<\/a> from the website.\u00a0 This also provides free access to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/databases\/milex\">SIPRI Military Expenditure Database <\/a>which has time series on the military spending of countries for the period 1949\u20132017.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1981 the UN has also maintained a file <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un-arm.org\/\">of military expenditure per capita<\/a>. Consult the sources and methodology for definitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest annual report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).\u00a0 Total world military expenditure rose to $1739 billion in 2017, a marginal increase of 1.1 per cent in real terms from 2016. The full text can be downloaded from the website.\u00a0 This also provides free access to the SIPRI Military Expenditure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,13,14],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-politics","category-security-and-risk","tag-arms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}