France moved up to second position, overtaking Russia, whose share in exports has been decreasing recently. Between 2019 and 20213, France was responsible for 10.9 percent of global arms exports (slightly up from 10.7). Russia came just behind at 10.5 percent calculated as the average from prewar years 2019-2021 and those after its invasion of Ukraine from 2022 to 2023. In the five years before the invasion, Russia’s share in global arms export had stood at a much higher 18.6 percent.
Russia’s and France’s biggest customer is India, which is the biggest importer of weapons in the world overall. France shipped arms to 64 states in the given time period and exports of its Rafales [combat aircraft](https://www.statista.com/topics/1546/military-aircraft-manufacturing/) rose to almost one third of these exports. Russia’s exported arms to 41 countries. Both countries as well as the U.S. ship the majority of their weapons to Asia and the Middle East, with big customers also including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
U.S. supply of weapons to Ukraine has played a big role recently, with Germany and Poland coming out as the top 2 and top 3 suppliers between 2019 and 2023. One of Russia’s main customer is Egypt, while France also supplied more than 9 percent of South Korea’s imports in the given time frame.
With Russia scaling back exports, the relative importance of other players in the global market – including China, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom – grew slightly. Spain overtook Israel and South Korea once more in rank 8 of the list of the world’s largest arms exporters after the latter country briefly seen exports spike.
You’re welcome world
-uncle sam
How is France so much higher than the UK? Makes me disappointed
Spain!? Which companies?? I am very curious about it
Spain surprises me. The others are where I thought they would be.
I suspect Russia has really fallen off the ledge here since 2022. Would be interesting to compare 2014-2019.
Biggest *recorded arms exporter
C’mon Germany, it’s time to step up the game and overtake Russia as third place
Pierre has really stepped up his game as of late.
*”And cousin, business is a-boomin.”*
I thought Sweden exported a lot of weapons (more than our “share” given our small population). But not that much I guess. Would be interesting to see this per capita though.
So War is obviously good and even necessary for America, funny that there is always a new kind of war every couple of years, very convenient for america
I live in the south west of France, and our main exports are flying weapons, flying stuff, weapons, wine (non-flying), and ducks (non-weaponized so far, but the avian flu is coming)
Its crazy how far Russia has fallen, id be curious to see if that ticks up at all after the Ukraine war ends (whenever that happens) or if it just continues to decline much like Russia overall
Where do they get all the spare arms from. Do they amputate them from people knowingly?
Do people donate their arms?
I don’t get it.
As an American, I say – no shit. We are an embarrassment arming every angry despot on the globe and even both sides of most conflicts.
A good chunk of French arms exports went to russia before Feb 2022. Basically armed their BMPs with thermal imaging systems anf fire control systems from THALES. Which was against sanctions.
Russia is military wish.com
I wonder if this is limited to military or including civilian markets.
I was curious where Türkiye ranks, so I wrote down the list. Looks promising for us, should crack the top 10 in the near future. If our current projects finish as planned, we might crack the top 5 in 2035-2040. Not realistic to come close to top 3 though, but overtaking Germany is not that unrealistic. I assume China will also push much more, so those top 4 should be like that for a long time.
Man is love to see the size of the hands with those arms
Yes, feel our mighty baguette Russia! Hon hon hon
Where’s South Korea? Didn’t they sell an incredible amount of stuff when the Ukraine war started?
America fueling the world’s conflicts
Rafales selling like hot cakes, and plenty more on order. Dassault s increasing the production rate to 3 per month by the end of the year, and possibly more.
why would they need so many you already get two at birth
Russia and China are still the biggest national security threats for US and EU.
I’m surprised South Korea didn’t make it onto the list. They’ve had some pretty big wins in this area in the last few years.
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According to the[ Stockholm International Peace Research Institute](https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers), the United States remains the world’s largest [arms exporter](https://www.statista.com/topics/1696/defense-and-arms/) responsible for 41.7 percent of international arms sales between 2019 and 2023, up from 38.6 percent between 2017 and 2021. During the most recent time span, the country [supplied arms to more than 100 countries](https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/fs_2403_at_2023.pdf).
France moved up to second position, overtaking Russia, whose share in exports has been decreasing recently. Between 2019 and 20213, France was responsible for 10.9 percent of global arms exports (slightly up from 10.7). Russia came just behind at 10.5 percent calculated as the average from prewar years 2019-2021 and those after its invasion of Ukraine from 2022 to 2023. In the five years before the invasion, Russia’s share in global arms export had stood at a much higher 18.6 percent.
Russia’s and France’s biggest customer is India, which is the biggest importer of weapons in the world overall. France shipped arms to 64 states in the given time period and exports of its Rafales [combat aircraft](https://www.statista.com/topics/1546/military-aircraft-manufacturing/) rose to almost one third of these exports. Russia’s exported arms to 41 countries. Both countries as well as the U.S. ship the majority of their weapons to Asia and the Middle East, with big customers also including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
U.S. supply of weapons to Ukraine has played a big role recently, with Germany and Poland coming out as the top 2 and top 3 suppliers between 2019 and 2023. One of Russia’s main customer is Egypt, while France also supplied more than 9 percent of South Korea’s imports in the given time frame.
With Russia scaling back exports, the relative importance of other players in the global market – including China, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom – grew slightly. Spain overtook Israel and South Korea once more in rank 8 of the list of the world’s largest arms exporters after the latter country briefly seen exports spike.
You’re welcome world
-uncle sam
How is France so much higher than the UK? Makes me disappointed
Spain!? Which companies?? I am very curious about it
Spain surprises me. The others are where I thought they would be.
I suspect Russia has really fallen off the ledge here since 2022. Would be interesting to compare 2014-2019.
Biggest *recorded arms exporter
C’mon Germany, it’s time to step up the game and overtake Russia as third place
Pierre has really stepped up his game as of late.
*”And cousin, business is a-boomin.”*
I thought Sweden exported a lot of weapons (more than our “share” given our small population). But not that much I guess. Would be interesting to see this per capita though.
So War is obviously good and even necessary for America, funny that there is always a new kind of war every couple of years, very convenient for america
I live in the south west of France, and our main exports are flying weapons, flying stuff, weapons, wine (non-flying), and ducks (non-weaponized so far, but the avian flu is coming)
Its crazy how far Russia has fallen, id be curious to see if that ticks up at all after the Ukraine war ends (whenever that happens) or if it just continues to decline much like Russia overall
Where do they get all the spare arms from. Do they amputate them from people knowingly?
Do people donate their arms?
I don’t get it.
As an American, I say – no shit. We are an embarrassment arming every angry despot on the globe and even both sides of most conflicts.
A good chunk of French arms exports went to russia before Feb 2022. Basically armed their BMPs with thermal imaging systems anf fire control systems from THALES. Which was against sanctions.
Russia is military wish.com
I wonder if this is limited to military or including civilian markets.
I was curious where Türkiye ranks, so I wrote down the list. Looks promising for us, should crack the top 10 in the near future. If our current projects finish as planned, we might crack the top 5 in 2035-2040. Not realistic to come close to top 3 though, but overtaking Germany is not that unrealistic. I assume China will also push much more, so those top 4 should be like that for a long time.
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Rank | Country | Share Worldwide | 2014-18 <-> 2019-23
—|—|—-|—-|—-
1 | USA | 41.7 | +17%
2 | France | 10.9 | +47%
3 | Russia | 10.5 | -53%
4 | China | 5.8 | -5.3%
5 | Germany | 5.6 | -14%
6 | Italy | 4.3 | +86%
7 | UK | 3.7 | -14%
8 | Spain | 2.7 | -3.3%
9 | Israel | 2.4 | -25%
10 | South Korea | 2.0 | +12%
11 | Türkiye | 1.6 | +106%
12 | Netherlands | 1.2 | -46%
13 | Sweden | 0.8 | +15%
14 | Poland | 0.7 | +1138%
15 | Canada | 0.6 | +20%
16 | Australia | 0.6 | +80%
17| Switzerland | 0.5 | -47%
18 | Ukraine | 0.4 | -73%
19 | Norway | 0.4 | -16%
20 | UAE | 0.3 | -24%
21 | South Africa | 0.3 | +3%
22 | Belgium | 0.3 | +430%
23 | Belarus | 0.2 | -34%
24 | Brazil | 0.2 | -3.5%
25 | Iran | 0.2 | +276%
Man is love to see the size of the hands with those arms
Yes, feel our mighty baguette Russia! Hon hon hon
Where’s South Korea? Didn’t they sell an incredible amount of stuff when the Ukraine war started?
America fueling the world’s conflicts
Rafales selling like hot cakes, and plenty more on order. Dassault s increasing the production rate to 3 per month by the end of the year, and possibly more.
why would they need so many you already get two at birth
Russia and China are still the biggest national security threats for US and EU.
I’m surprised South Korea didn’t make it onto the list. They’ve had some pretty big wins in this area in the last few years.