The rise in crises around the world, especially in Ukraine and the Middle East, has refocused attention on international arms exports. Here we visualize US and Russia's biggest arms-trading partners.
For decades, countries skilled in the manufacture of weapons have provided them to other countries in need; and at the helm of these trades are the United States and Russia, which, as Visual Capitalist's Anshool Deshmukh details below, have accounted for 57 percent of all international arms trades in the last ten years.
So, who are the most significant importers of guns from these two nations, and what is the military worth of these trades?
The following infographic by Ruben Berge Mathisen visualizes the top 50 largest arms recipients by value for both the United States and Russia over the previous decade using data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) arms transfer database.
The Military Valuation of Arms Transfers
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