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Between 1998-2001 world-wide military expenditure increased after a noticeable drop in the previous eleven years. In 2001 military expenditure reached 839 million dollars on a world-wide scale, representing a total of 137 million dollars per inhabitant or 2.6 per cent of the world GNP. Areas most significantly affected by this expenditure are: Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. However, these figures do not take into account the military expenditure that resulted from the events of September 11, figures that could signify a substantially higher amount of spending.
In 1999, a year when military expenditure reached the astronomically sum of more than 780 billion dollars, UNICEF pointed out that the international community had not yet succeeded in coming up with an extra 7 million dollars – a sum required on a yearly basis to insure children access to education over the next decade.
Sources :
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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UNICEF
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