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United Kingdom

#9 of 18 by healthy life years

Current employee: Keir Starmer

Official government site ↗

⚔️ Military : 🧪 Trials Ratio

414.4:1

For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, United Kingdom spends $414 on military.

🎮 Game Metrics

❤️ Healthy Life Years (HALE)

70.1

Global avg: · Target:

Needs +14.9 years to hit treaty target

💰 GDP Per Capita

$55.8K

Median income: $17.2K

World Bank PPP 2023

💣 Military vs 🧪 Medicine

💣 Military Spending$75B/yr

🧪 Clinical Trials$181M/yr

Scaled to the same axis as military — the bar is 0.24% of military spending

🧬 Total Medical Research$3B/yr

🏥 Health Spending / Capita$5.1K

📊 Spending Profile

💣

Military Spending/yr

$75B

2.3% of GDP

SIPRI 2024

🏥

Health Spending/capita

$5.1K

OECD Health Statistics 2023

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Life Expectancy

81.8 yrs

World Bank 2023

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Military : Trials Ratio

414:1

Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials

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Military : Research Ratio

27.8:1

Weapons per $1 of total government medical research

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Gov Medical Research/yr

$3B

Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)

NIHR GBP 1.3B (2022-23) + MRC ~GBP 0.8B health research ↗

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Gov Clinical Trials/yr

$181M

Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead

Estimated: ~6.7% of $2.7B total NIHR+MRC medical research budget ↗

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Arms Exports/yr

$5B

SIPRI Arms Transfers 2023

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Debt

101% of GDP

IMF 2024

🛢️

Fossil Fuel Subsidies/yr

$12B

UK Treasury — £10B (~$12B)

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Farm Subsidies/yr

$4B

DEFRA — £3.5B (~$4.3B)

💀 Body Count

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Body Count

500,000

1945–2025

Summed from 1 sourced government death ledger entry ↗

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Nuclear Warheads

225

FAS Nuclear Notebook 2024

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Civilian Deaths

100,000

Various: colonial conflicts + Iraq/Afghanistan civilian estimates

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Countries Bombed

UK MoD, conflict databases

💥 Countries Bombed

Malaya, Kenya, Suez/Egypt, Falklands, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria

📜 Death Ledger

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

Postwar colonial and expeditionary killings

Existing Optimitron grouped estimate spanning Malaya, Kenya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and related post-imperial conflicts.

Chronology of mass murders since 1900 ↗

Period

1945–2025

Deaths

500,000

legacy-composite

⚖️ Justice & Domestic

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Homicide Rate /100K

1.0

ONS 2023

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Incarceration /100K

134

World Prison Brief 2024

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Murders Solved

88%

Home Office 2023

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Drug Prisoners

13,000

UK MoJ 2023 — drug offences in custody

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Drug War Spending/yr

$3B

UK Home Office estimate

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Overdose Deaths/yr

4,907

ONS 2023

🗳️ United Kingdom 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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United Kingdom spends $75B/yr on military and $181M/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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