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The unit data provided below refers to original U.S. Ordnance contract carbines the United States provided these countries. Many countries sold, traded, destroyed, and/or donated these carbines to other countries and/or private gun brokers.
- Allies of World War II (1940s)
- Algeria: (Captured in large numbers from French military personnel during the Algerian Independence War)
- Angola: 12,215 units
- FNLA: (Unknown number captured/illegally acquired for use during the Angolan Civil War)
- Argentina: 12,621 units
- Austria: 39,005 units(1950s–70s, Austrian Army and Police)
- Bavaria: 14,647 units(1945–early 1950s, Border Guard)
- Brazil: (1944-1945, Brazilian Expeditionary Force; present, BOPE)
- Bolivia: 13,438 units
- Burma: 28,792 units
- Cambodia: 115,568 units (Khmer Republic) (1967–1975)
- Canada: 230 units
- Chile: 2,877 units
- China: 361 units
- Colombia: 7,037 units
- Costa Rica: 6,000 units
- Cuba: 118 units
- Ecuador: 576 units
- El Salvador: 156 units
- Ethiopia: 16,417 units
- France: 269,644 units(1954–1962, Algerian War)
- French Indochina: 35,429 units
- Germany: 34,192 units(German Border Guard, some Police forces and German Army paratroopers (1950s-1960s)
- Greece: 38,264 units(Hellenic (Greek) Air Force until mid 1990s)
- Guatemala: 6063 units
- Honduras: 5,581 units
- Indonesia: Used by Indonesian Armed Forces in 1950s and 1960s.
- Iran: 10,000 units
- Ireland: (1969-1980s, Used by the Provisional IRA during the early years of their campaign. Over 50 of which were smuggled by Harrison Network.)
- Israel: 10,000 units(1945–1957, Israel Defence Forces; 1970s–present, Israel Police; 1974–present, Civil Guard)
- Italy: 146,863 units(Carabinieri, as of 1992)
- Japan: 3,974 units(National Police Reserve)(1950–1989)
- Jordan: 1912 units
- Laos: 74,587 units
- Lebanon: 900 units
- Liberia: 80 units
- Libya: 106 units
- Malaysia
- Mexico: 48,946 units(police departments and security forces)
- Morocco: 945 units
- Netherlands: 84,523 units(1940s-1970s, Army and Police)
- Nicaragua: 121 units
- Nigeria: 100 units
- Norway: 98,267 units(Norwegian Army 1951-1970, with some Norwegian police units until the 1990s)
- Pakistan: 45 units
- Panama: 917 units
- Peru: 821 units
- Philippines: 8,831 units(Pre and Post-World War II)
- Saudi Arabia: Used by the Saudi Army.
- South Korea: 1,015,558 units(1950s-Present, Reserve Force)
- South Vietnam: 793,994 units (1960s–70s)
- Suriname: (?-Present, Army)
- Taiwan: 115,948 units (Republic of China) (1950s-present)
- Thailand: 73,012 units Locally known as the ปสบ.87.
- Tunisia: 771 units
- Turkey: 450 units(Used by Troops in South Korea)
- United Kingdom: 200,766 units (Limited use by the British military from 1943 to the 1960s and by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland until the 1980s)
- United States: 6,110,730 units(1940s–60s/70s, Armed Forces and 1940s-present, various law enforcement agencies)
- Uruguay: 32,346 units
- USSR: 7 units
- Vietnam: (Largely captured and/or inherited from now-defunct Army of the Republic of Vietnam)
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