Defense Budgets

Rank it · Military expenditure (% of GDP), 2025 · % of GDP

Military Spending (% of GDP) 🇮🇳🇯🇵

Ukraine leads this card at 39.56, with Ireland at 0.22. The gap is 39.34 % of GDP. Ukraine is 179.82 times Ireland.

Ukraine's share is the war itself. Ireland stays near the bottom on a long policy of military neutrality. Note: share of GDP, not dollars.

Source: World Bank / SIPRI: Military expenditure (% of GDP) (MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS) See the source.

United States

Quiz · Woman head of state or government, in her own right · yes / no

Has United States ever had a woman as head of state or government?

Source: Wikipedia: List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government. A woman counts when she held head of state or head of government in her own right. Acting, interim, honorary, and governor-general-only spells do not count. Queens and grand duchesses regnant do count. Each country on this board was checked against that list and the officeholder's article. See the source.

Chinese checkers

Quiz · One shot each, then the fact

Which country invented the board game later called Chinese checkers?

Ravensburger published Stern-Halma in Germany in 1892, Halma on a six-pointed star. An American doctor, George Howard Monks, had invented square-board Halma in 1883. J. Pressman & Co. sold the star game in the United States in 1928 and named it Chinese checkers. The game is not Chinese.

Source: Traditional Games, Halma and Chinese Checkers See the source.

Up in Smoke

Rank it · Prevalence of current tobacco use, smoked or smokeless (% of adults 15+), 2024 · %

Tobacco Use 🇩🇪🇺🇸

Lebanon's rate includes heavy shisha use, which this measure counts as tobacco. Germany still uses more than the US, and e-cigarettes are left out. Note: WHO age-standardised estimates, 2024.

Source: World Bank / WHO: Prevalence of current tobacco use (SH.PRV.SMOK) See the source.