Iwwabligg

Graphic showing the top 14 worldwide military budgets sorted by country (the top 14 cover all countries who spent more than $10 billion on their military), in $USD billions. Data for P.R. China and Russia is from 2004 expenditures ("Expenditures are used in a few cases where official budgets are significantly lower than actual spending").

Data source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Archivkopie in der Wayback Machine.

Created by User:Fastfission using a combination of Microsoft Excel (to get the bars the right length), then exported to Illustrator and then re-designed in Inkscape. Not all exact values are shown, the goal of the graphic is to show relative amounts and not just duplicate what could otherwise more easily go into a table. I've arranged it vertically in order to best work with Wikipedia page layout. I've tried to keep things pretty simple following the graphical recommendations that Edward Tufte has written about.

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Dieses Werk wurde von seinem Urheber Fastfission als gemeinfrei veröffentlicht. Dies gilt weltweit. In manchen Staaten könnte dies rechtlich nicht möglich sein. Sofern dies der Fall ist: Fastfission gewährt jedem das bedingungslose Recht, dieses Werk für jedweden Zweck zu nutzen, es sei denn, Bedingungen sind gesetzlich erforderlich.

If you want to credit someone, credit "Wikimedia Commons." Otherwise don't credit anyone, that's fine by me. --Fastfission 15:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)