1. ConflictsGuinea

   Guinea: more for the army than for education

   2.1%military

   1.7%education

   government spending, % of GDP, 2023

   In 2023 the military took 2.1% of GDP and education 1.7%. Since 1991 the lead has changed hands 6 times; the military has been ahead since 2022.

   Source: SIPRI (military) and UNESCO (education) via the World BankOpen on the chart →

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   Military spending (SIPRI estimate) and public spending on education (UNESCO), both as a percentage of the same year’s GDP.

   Blue is the card’s first number, orange the second; they share one scale. The gap between them is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both lines share.

   • Military expenditure % of GDP

     2.4 (1991) → 2.1 (2023)

     World Bank, World Development Indicators

   • Government expenditure on education % of GDP

     1.4 (1991) → 1.7 (2023)

     Government expenditure on education, total (% of GDP)

   Only years since 1970 where both series are published; gaps are not filled. The military must lead in the last two shared years. If it led from the start or the lead changed hands, the text says so and no overtaking is marked. Size thresholds pick a story and do not show that one causes the other.

   Education spending is public only; private tuition is not included. SIPRI military spending includes military pensions and construction.

   A question for this picture

   How many schools is one percent of GDP worth in this country?

More findings

• Guinea: more babies born than in Italy
• Guinea: 508k natives live abroad, 4.3 times as many as the foreign-born living there
• Guinea: since 2008 fertility has been falling 3.4 times faster, from 5.60 to 4.22 children per woman
• El Salvador: 14 times fewer homicides per 100,000 people than in 2015
• Ecuador: 7.9 times more homicides per 100,000 people than in 2017
• Austria: 45% fewer babies in 1917 (World War I) than before the war; about the same in countries without war

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