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World's largest arms exporters

The unit in this table are so-called trend indicator values expressed in millions of US dollars at 1990s prices. 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. Ordered by descending 2000–2010 values. The information is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.^[8]

2001–12 Rank	Supplier	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
1	United States	5908	5229	5698	6866	6700	7453	8003	6288	6658	8641	9984	-
2	Russia	5896	5705	5236	6178	5134	5095	5426	5953	5575	6039	7874	7967[9]
3	Germany	850	916	1713	1105	2080	2567	3194	2500	2432	2340	1206	-
4	France	1297	1368	1345	2219	1724	1643	2432	1994	1865	1834	2437	-
5	China	499	509	665	292	303	597	430	586	1000	1423	1354	-
6	United Kingdom	1368	1068	741	1316	1039	855	1018	982	1022	1054	1070	-
7	Italy	880	191	526	314	538	432	366	454	383	806	1046	-
8	Israel	203	239	342	209	583	1187	1326	530	545	503	531	-
9	Sweden	216	426	341	212	774	502	684	417	514	806	686	-
10	Ukraine	700	311	442	200	290	553	728	330	320	201	484	-
11	Spain	7	120	150	56	108	843	590	610	998	513	927	-
12	Switzerland	193	157	181	243	246	285	301	482	255	137	297	-
13	Canada	129	170	263	265	226	226	334	227	169	258	292	-
14	South Korea	165	N/A	100	29	48	94	220	80	163	95	225	-

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