Largest Arms Exporters 2021-2025
Key Findings
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Largest Arms Exporters 2021-2025The United States is overwhelmingly the world's dominant arms supplier, accounting for 42% of all major weapons exports - more than four times the share of second-placed France (9.8%). Russia, long the world's number two exporter, has fallen to third at 6.8% as sanctions and its war in Ukraine cut into deliveries. Germany (5.7%) and China (5.6%) are nearly tied for fourth. A cluster of mid-sized exporters follows: Italy (5.1%), Israel (4.4%), the UK (3.4%), South Korea (3.0%) and Spain (2.3%). The top five suppliers together control roughly three-quarters of the global market, showing how few countries produce and sell advanced weaponry at scale.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- SIPRI Arms Transfers Database
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Share of Global Arms Exports 2021-2025 (%)
- Last updated
- 13 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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