Countries and weapons

World's largest defence budgets

This is a list of the ten countries with the highest defence budgets for the year 2008. The information is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ^[10]. Total world spending amounted to $1.464 trillion USD in 2008. Wikipedia.

World's largest arms exporters

The unit 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. Ordered by descending 2007 values. Wikipedia.