Option #5: 500 billion could ensure that every child in the world is given basic immunizations for 160 years.

Submitted by Carl Mueller, Hamburg, Germany

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has estimated the additional monies needed to immunize every child in the developing world at $2.808 billion annually. The report (Table 8) calculates that 3 million children die annually from vaccine preventable diseases. To account for inflation and provide a margin for error, the Cost of War calculator uses a figure of $3 billion to calculate the number of years that the war in Iraq could pay for the immunization of all children in the developing world.

Source. www.costofwar.com