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Saudi Arabia
#12 of 18 by healthy life years
Current employee: Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Official government site ↗⚔️ Military : 🧪 Trials Ratio
5,831:1
For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, Saudi Arabia spends $5,831 on military.
🎮 Game Metrics
❤️ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
66.3
Global avg: · Target:
Needs +18.7 years to hit treaty target
💰 GDP Per Capita
$56.9K
Median income: $13.8K
World Bank PPP 2023
💣 Military vs 🧪 Medicine
💣 Military Spending$76B/yr
🧪 Clinical Trials$13M/yr
Scaled to the same axis as military — the bar is 0.02% of military spending
🧬 Total Medical Research$200M/yr
🏥 Health Spending / Capita$2.5K
📊 Spending Profile
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Military Spending/yr
$76B
7.1% of GDP
SIPRI 2024
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Health Spending/capita
$2.5K
WHO 2022
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Life Expectancy
77.6 yrs
World Bank 2023
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Military : Trials Ratio
5,831:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
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Military : Research Ratio
379:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
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Gov Medical Research/yr
$200M
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
Estimated: SNIH established 2023 under Vision 2030; nascent program ↗🧪
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$13M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $200M; SNIH per-project grants up to 4M SAR ($1.07M) ↗🔫
Arms Exports/yr
$100M
SIPRI Arms Transfers 2023
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Debt
26% of GDP
IMF 2024
🛢️
Fossil Fuel Subsidies/yr
$27B
IMF 2023 — explicit subsidies
💀 Body Count
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Nuclear Warheads
0
FAS
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Civilian Deaths
227,000
UN — Yemen blockade famine/disease deaths
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Countries Bombed
2
ACLED, conflict databases
💥 Countries Bombed
Yemen, Bahrain (intervention)
📜 Death Ledger
Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.
Saudi-led war in Yemen
Existing Optimitron grouped estimate for direct and blockade-linked deaths in Yemen.
Period
2015–2025
Deaths
377,000
legacy-composite
⚖️ Justice & Domestic
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Homicide Rate /100K
1.5
UNODC 2022
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Incarceration /100K
197
World Prison Brief 2024
🗳️ Saudi Arabia 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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Saudi Arabia spends $76B/yr on military and $13M/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.