Top Arms Suppliers

 

We examined the top eleven weapons-supplying nations to determine what factors are associated with greater or lesser arms transfers to recipient countries.

Lead researcher, Sam Perlo-Freeman.

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U.S.A.146bn TIV*33 recipients16 conflictsRussia62bn2818France24bn2814U.K.22bn169China19bn2615Ger.17bn179Isr.6.7bn1614Italy6.2bn2213Neth.5.5bn105Ukr.5.4bn2014Spa.5.3bn139

Comparative volume of Major Conventional Weapons transferred from top supplier countries to states actively at war, 1990-2018

*The SIPRI Trend Indicator Value (TIV) is a relative measure of arms transfer value, normalized for inflation and currency.

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See the flow of arms for each war, and how weapons sales evolve over time in our conflict analysis pages.