Arms Industry - World's Largest Arms Importers

World's Largest Arms Importers

The units in this table are so-called trend indicator values expressed in millions of US dollars. These values do not represent real financial flows but are a crude instrument to estimate volumes of arms transfers, regardless of the contracted prices, which can be as low as zero in the case of military aid.

Current Rank Importer 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
1 India 911 1242 1872 2802 2227 1036 1257 2179 1810 2116 3337
2 Australia 364 1191 647 798 505 470 682 629 380 757 1677
3 South Korea 1262 623 461 680 986 686 1650 1758 1821 1172 1131
4 Singapore 622 220 235 88 384 543 52 368 1123 1729 1078
5 United States 301 449 453 533 512 501 581 731 808 831 893
6 Algeria 418 553 237 197 272 156 308 471 1518 942 791
7 Saudi Arabia 158 397 533 592 385 332 262 613 939 1146 2580
8 Greece 710 725 491 2241 1528 389 598 1796 563 1269 703
9 China 2015 3366 2819 2207 3080 3511 3831 1474 1481 595 559
10 United Arab Emirates 243 186 213 695 1246 2198 2026 938 748 604 493
11 Pakistan 80 59 555 159 1161 148 185 64 115 626 787
12 Turkey 1170 553 1009 438 187 1005 422 585 578 675 468
13 Malaysia 30 26 131 135 48 51 410 546 541 1494 411
14 Norway 263 148 92 4 6 14 469 494 536 576 205
15 Indonesia 171 27 63 398 82 31 58 577 241 452 198

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