Largest Arms Exporters 2021-2025

About This Dataset

The world's biggest exporters of major conventional weapons over the 2021-2025 period, by percentage share of the global arms trade, according to SIPRI. Figures are five-year averages that smooth out year-to-year fluctuations in weapons deliveries.

✨ AI Insight

The 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.

Source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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United States leads with 42 in All Time.

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Average value in All Time: 9 · median: 5.

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Gap in All Time: United States is 18.3× larger than Spain.