Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

updated June 10, 2010

Iraq:

United States: $727.5 billion
New Jersey: $34.1 billion
Maplewood, NJ: $139.8 million
South Orange, NJ: 104.3 million

Afghanistan:

United States: $276.8 billion
New Jersey: $13.7 billion
Maplewood, NJ: 55.9 million
South Orange, NJ: $41.7 million

Source: National Priorities Project
Figures represent expenditures already made. Amounts allocated are higher. Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz estimates total cost of war at $3 trillion.

Guide to war cost studies and discussion by SMPA treasurer and Columbia economist Dan O'Flaherty.