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Defence Expenditure of the Major Belligerent Nations of WW II, 1930-1938.

Data from: The World in 1939, AJ Toynbee & FT Ashton-Gwatkin (1952)

Chart created by uploader.

The figures charted (adjusted to 1990 dollar equivalent) may well be inaccurate. Japanese expediture is probably understated, possibly by more than a third.

Originally created for Wikipedia by TwoOneTwo.