AS a portion of GDP, US K-12 education spending 2000: 3.7% 2005: 3.8% 2009: 4.0% 2012: 3.6% 2015: 3.5% https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-s

AS a portion of GDP, US K-12 education spending 2000: 3.7% 2005: 3.8% 2009: 4.0% 2012: 3.6% 2015: 3.5% https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm France and UK spend more in the G7, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan spend less. US defense spending 2000: 3.0% 2005: 3.9% 2009: 4.6% 2012: 4.2% 2015: 3.3% https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm I was surprised to be honest. US spending on defense is way down on most of the 70s and 80s (6%ish, lowest was 78 with 4.9%)