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China

#10 of 18 by healthy life years

Current employee: Li Qiang

Official government site โ†—
โš”๏ธ Military : ๐Ÿงช Trials Ratio
296.0:1

For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, China spends $296 on military.

๐ŸŽฎ Game Metrics

โค๏ธ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
68.5
Global avg: ยท Target:
Needs +16.5 years to hit treaty target
๐Ÿ’ฐ GDP Per Capita
$23.4K
Median income: $3.3K
World Bank PPP 2023

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military vs ๐Ÿงช Medicine

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military Spending$296B/yr
๐Ÿงช Clinical Trials$1B/yr

Scaled to the same axis as military โ€” the bar is 0.34% of military spending

๐Ÿงฌ Total Medical Research$15B/yr
๐Ÿฅ Health Spending / Capita$937

๐Ÿ“Š Spending Profile

๐Ÿ’ฃ
Military Spending/yr
$296B
1.7% of GDP
SIPRI 2024 (estimated)
๐Ÿฅ
Health Spending/capita
$937
WHO Global Health Expenditure 2022
โณ
Life Expectancy
78.6 yrs
World Bank 2023
โš–๏ธ
Military : Trials Ratio
296:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
๐Ÿ”ฌ
Military : Research Ratio
19.7:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
๐Ÿงฌ
Gov Medical Research/yr
$15B
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
~$15B medical research; spends 97x more on domestic security than clinical research โ†—
๐Ÿงช
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$1B
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $15B medical research budget (global avg for clinical trials portion) โ†—
๐Ÿ”ซ
Arms Exports/yr
$2B
SIPRI Arms Transfers 2023
๐Ÿ’ณ
Debt
83% of GDP
IMF 2024
๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ
Fossil Fuel Subsidies/yr
$16B
IMF 2023 โ€” explicit subsidies (much higher including externalities)

๐Ÿ’€ Body Count

๐Ÿ’€
Body Count
80,202,000
1923โ€“1987
Summed from 2 sourced government death ledger entries โ†—
โ˜ข๏ธ
Nuclear Warheads
500
FAS Nuclear Notebook 2024
๐Ÿชฆ
Civilian Deaths
1,000,000
Various academic estimates โ€” Korean War + internal
๐Ÿ’ฅ
Countries Bombed
3
Conflict databases

๐Ÿ’ฅ Countries Bombed

Korea, Vietnam (border war 1979), India (border skirmishes)

๐Ÿ“œ Death Ledger

Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.

Peopleโ€™s Republic of China democide
Rummel revised PRC total, including the later famine revision noted on his statistics pages.
Period
1949โ€“1987
Deaths
76,702,000
rummel-midpoint
Chinese communist revolutionary army killings
Pre-1949 communist army democide reported by Rummel; excludes battle deaths.
Period
1923โ€“1949
Deaths
3,500,000
rummel-midpoint

โš–๏ธ Justice & Domestic

๐Ÿ”ช
Homicide Rate /100K
0.5
UNODC 2022
โ›“๏ธ
Incarceration /100K
119
World Prison Brief 2024

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ China Politician Alignment

Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.

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๐ŸŽฏ Fix China's Score

China spends $296B/yr on military and $1B/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.

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