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 |
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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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