Top 10 Countries by Military Spending (1870-2020)

This video will compare the top 10 countries by military spending from 1870 to 2020. Military spending often determines how powerful a country’s military and how advanced a country’s technology is. From 1870 to 2020, there have been massive and dramatic changes in the military spending of different countries. Everything from WW1, Russian Civil War, WW2, and Cold War, have all taken place within only the past few centuries. To witness events that have shaped our globe today, and watch empires rise and fall, be sure to watch this video. Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe! Datasources: Our World In Data, World Bank, The Correlates of War Project, SIPRI, Wikipedia, Music: Heart of Iron 4 *This video in particular took me an incredibly long time. I wanted to create a flagship chart that blew away all of the other comparisons on YouTube. This chart goes back centuries, so finding the data for each individual historical country was extremely difficult. This chart also co