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GDAMS 2023 infographics

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These infographics are also availabe in Spanish, Japanese, Catalan and French here.

Sources in these infographics include:
– SIPRI Global Military Spending Report 2022
– Reearch from the European Network Against the Arms Trade (ENAAT) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) based on figures published by the European Commission.
– UN Climate Change

Our thanks to TNI and ENAAT for their support.


– Gensuikyo (Japan Council against A & H Bombs) shared an article with GDAMS infographics

Article by Quique Sánchez, GCOMS officer in Barcelona, on Gensuikyo’s April newsletter. This piece introduced the GDAMS 2021 to Gensuikyo’s followers and activists, asking them to turn their eyes especially on the link between Japanese demand for nuclear abolition and the growing military expenditure of Japan for massive purchase of US fighter jets/weapon systems and building US military bases in Okinawa.
You can read the article here




New infographics for GDAMS 2019

2019 Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) have already started and will go on until May 9. This special period of actions is based on the cooperative efforts of more than 100 pacifist organizations around the world, and for the occasion we have prepared these 2 infographics using data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Please feel free to use them and share them so we can get the word out on the nonsense of militarization!
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The military spending infographic is also available in Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan and Finnish.
Infographic with figures for the year 2017 here.


New Infographics on the need to reduce Military Expenditure

According to new data on arms transfers published on Monday 12th by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2013-17 was 10 per cent higher than in 2008-12. This 10% is the money needed to reverse climate change and end poverty and hunger by 2030.

We launch today a new infographics on the urgent need to take action to reduce global investment on warfare and to engage for #2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The new material has been created within the framework of GDAMS 2018 (Global Days Against Military Spending), an initiative of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS).

Reducing 10% of military assets will help saving our planet. Take action!


New Infographics showing world military spending in 2016

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This new Infographics shows recently published SIPRI data on global military spending during 2016 in a visual way.

Click on the image to download the high quality pdf version of the Infographics:

Click here to get the Spanish version (as an .jpg image), or download from here its high quality pdf version!

There are plenty of reasons to renew, once again and for the 7th year running, our call for a cut in military spending (based upon SIPRI data), so that the world can move a little closer to the human security approach that would better serve humanity.

The Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS) is an international campaign promoted by the International Peace Bureau. The aim of the campaign is to press governments to invest money in the sectors of health, education, employment and climate change, rather than the military. GCOMS includes the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS), which in its 7th edition includes over 70 different actions in more than 20 countries, as listed on the CGOMS webpage.

According to the updated 2016 military spending data, published recently by SIPRI, world military expenditure has increased in 2016 by 0.4% in real terms, and is now estimated at roughly $ 1686 billion.

Download the GCOMS second statement including updated SIPRI data.


May 9: Actions Against The Militarization of Europe

On May 9, Europe Day of Peace and Unity, we organised online actions to protest the militarization of Europe, together with ENAAT and the Transnational Institute (TNI) and other European friends and partners. We took action to protest military spending levels in Europe, which have increased a 13% in the last year, as well as recently aproved EU defence policies, which have pushed for a 183% increase in the EU military budget.

On Europe Day, which celebrates peace and unity, we call the EU to revert back to its initial aim: preserving and promoting peace through non-violent means and political cooperation, making war ‘not merely unthinkable but materially impossible’ (Schuman Declaration). Today however, the EU is on a very different path. From 2017 to 2022, aggregated military spending of EU countries rose by 23%, according to SIPRI. Adding UK’s military spending makes EU countries the world’s second largest military spender after the US and before China. For example, in 2017, the EU crossed a red line when for the first time in history it used its budget for military purposes, starting with half a billion € over 3 years and now exceeding 10 billion € for the period 2021-2027. In 2022 its military budget increased by 183%.
Its position in regards to the war in Ukraine is also proof of these militaristic policies: the EU has disregarded any attempt at mediation or peace negotiations, and spent at least €3.11 billion in delivering arms to Ukraine, twice as much as it has spent on humanitarian aid.


#EuropeDay marks 73 years since the Schumann declaration, which envisaged a Europe where war would be ‘not merely unthinkable but materially impossible’. Over 70 years later EU military spending is at its highest, yet we are further from peace than ever before.
As a bloc, EU member states, together with Norway and the UK are the second largest military spenders globally, after the US. Instead of investing in arms and fanning the flames of war, Europe must demilitarise public policy and prioritise peace. TNI

9 May 1950: Schuman proposed pulling coal & steel production to avoid arms race and war in Europe. Today: EU dedicates billions to fund the arms industry, develop next generation of weaponry and ramp-up ammunition production.
EU militarisation is subsidising the arms industry, exacerbating the global arms race and preparing the wars of the future. We need mutual trust, diplomacy and cooperation, not another hard power. ENAAT

To know more about EU militarisation and how it all started, read our booklet for Rosa Luxemburg, available here in EN, FR, DE, ES & IT

You can download our GDAMS infographics here.


Onboard day of action in Japan

Peace Boat joined GDAMS during their 114th voyage, appealing for peace in Ukraine.
During the onboard day of action for May 5, there’ll be lectures and workshops and participants are planning to take a photo to show Peace Boat’s support for GDAMS.
Peace Boat will also translate  the GDAMS infographics to Japanese.
During the Civil7 ahead of the G7, there were some events related to the cost of nuclear weapons, and GDAMS was also included in an event Karen Hallows (Peace Boat representative) was speaking at Asia Pacific University for Earth Day on April 22.
Peace Boat also endorsed and shared the GDAMS 2023 Appeal.


The world spent 2.24 trillion $ in the military in 2022.

SIPRI has just released new data on military spending for the year 2022, and figures are once again disheartening. During the 1st year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we’ve seen an increase in most of the biggest spenders, which has pushed world military expenditures over 2 trillion USD for the second time in a row, growing a 3.7% above inflation.
You can find the SIPRI fact sheet here.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has, of course, been a major factor in driving increases in the budgets of those nations and NATO countries – with a knock-on effect in other parts of the world. Despite the considerable rise of 9.2% in the Russian budget, it remains dwarfed by NATO spending – which is over 14 times its size.

Stuart Parkinson, Co-chair of the UK branch of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS-UK) and Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)

On the occasion, our campaign is holding actions all across the world, including press conferences in Barcelona, Berlin, Seoul, Rome, Manila and Wellington, and more media work in Australia, the UK and USA. To strengthen the impact of this, we’re also putting together a Social Media Storm. Amid dramatic environmental and socioeconomic crises, we’re joining our voices and taking action to urge governments across the world to place their efforts into addressing the climate crisis, instead of making it worse (see also our Appeal War Costs Us the Earth).

It is time for us to join our voices and call on governments around the world to cut military spending, and to instead invest in common and human security.

The increase in military spending for 2022 would have suffice to cover the annual UN climate finance goal. It’s just a matter of priorities, and our governments have got them all wrong.

Visit our GDAMS Shared Folder, where you’ll find images, infographics and posting exemples and other materials, and use today your social media (Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram) to spread the word and draw attention to the issue. We will be using these hashtags: #GDAMS #WarCostsUsTheEarth

Together with the Transnational Institute (TNI) and the European Network Against the Arms Trade (ENAAT) we’ve prepared a series of infographics analysing military spending levels from different perspectives (global, NATO, EU, climate, war profiteers…).
You can download them here. They will be available in Spanish, Italian, Catalan, French, Italian and Japanese soon.


Updated Military Spending Map

We have updated our infographic with the most recent figures available at SIPRI’s military expenditure database (2019).
On April 26, 2021, SIPRI will launch military spending data for the year 2020.

This infographic shows through bubbles the 30 biggest military spenders in the world, drawing data from SIPRI’s Military Expenditure Database. It also displays on the upper side a bar graphic with world total (1.92 trillion USD), and the proportion of this represented by the U.S. (731$b –more than a third), the 7 next biggest spenders (almost another third) and everyone else (the last third).  
NATO aggregated spending is 1.03 trillion $.
The European Union’s aggregated spending is the second highest, after the U.S., and amounts to 268.2 billion $.

To see older versions of this map click here.

Please feel free to use it and share them so we can get the word out!