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The top 25 arms exporters accounted for 98 per cent of the world’s arms exports in 2019–23. States in North America and Europe together accounted for 87 per cent of all arms exports in the period. The five largest exporters in Western Europe supplied around one quarter of total global arms exports in 2019–23. [19]
In 2016 most of arms exports went to 18 countries including China, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Israel, Egypt, and Pakistan. [4] In 2017 Israel was the second-biggest buyer of UK arms which was appointed on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) human rights priority list.
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South Africa is the largest exporter of small arms in the region, but only $6 million in small arms were exported out of the country, while $25 million in small arms were imported into the continent in 2005. Beyond legal trade, the illicit trade of small arms and light weapons also has a great effect on Africa.
Total exports of land-based weapons and military equipment grew to 27 percent. At the same time, the shares of naval equipment and anti-aircraft systems increased to 18 percent and 15 percent, respectively. Russia is the world's second largest conventional arms exporter after the United States.
Arms export revenue would rise to $3.2 billion in 2017, compared to $250 million in 2006. [16] In 2018, South Korea became the 11th largest arms exporter in the world, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). South Korea's arms exports from 2009–2013 and 2014–2018 increased by 94%.
A Foreign Ministry source confirmed on May 9 that Italy, one of Israel's three biggest arms suppliers along with the U.S. and Germany, had halted new export approvals since the start of the Gaza ...
They are also among the world's top 10 largest arms exporters and are the only nations officially recognised as "nuclear-weapon states" under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), though there are other states known or believed to be in possession of nuclear weapons.