1 Billion for drugs; 2 Billion for military...per day

In class, we just learned that it costs about $800 billion for a pharmaceutical company to make a new drug...which led me to look up the U.S. military spending.

So the U.S. spends $2 billion per day on military, which is $711 billion per year.  

That consists of 47% of the world's spending on military, which is almost how much the rest of the world spends on military COMBINED.   Pie Chart of World Military Spendings