Five charts that show the rise of global militarisation

The world’s militaries spent $2.88 trillion in 2025, an increase of 2.9 percent from the year before, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s (SIPRI) latest report.

To put that number into perspective, $2.88 trillion amounts to $350 of military spending for each person on the planet.

In this visual explainer, Al Jazeera unpacks the rise of global militarisation,...