The 10 Companies That Dominate The Global Arms Trade

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The world puts $1.69 trillion towards military expenditures per year, and about $375 billion of that goes towards buying arms specifically.

Whether it is guns, tanks, jets, missiles, or ships that are on your list, in the international arms community, there is a supplier for any weapon your country desires.

ARMS DEALERS, BY SALES

Today's chart organizes the world's top arms companies by sales, location, and arms as a percentage of sales:

Rank Company Country Arms sales (2016) Arms as % of sales #1 Lockheed Martin USA $40.8B 86% #2 Boeing USA $29.5B 31% #3 Raytheon USA $22.9B 95% #4 BAE Systems UK $22.8B 95% #5 Northrop Grumman USA $21.4B 87% #6 General Dynamics USA $19.2B 61% #7 Airbus Group EU $12.5B 17% #8 BAE Systems (U.S.) USA $9.3B 93% #9 L3 Technologies USA $8.9B 85% #10 Leonardo Italy $8.5B 64%

Note: Airbus considers itself a European company. It's registered in the Netherlands, and its main HQ is in France.

The above data comes courtesy of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which tracks arms and companies extensively.

USA, USA!

While it is common knowledge that the United States plays a big role in the global arms trade, the numbers are still quite astounding.

Of the top ten companies by sales, firms based in the U.S. make up seven of them. That includes the clear #1, Lockheed Martin, which had $40.8 billion in arms-related sales in 2016, as well as the remaining constituents of the top three: Boeing and Raytheon.

Further, on SIPRI's wider top 100 list, a good proxy for total arms sales globally, U.S. defense companies accounted for a whopping 58% of total global arms sales. That adds up to $217.2 billion in 2016, a 4.0% rise over the previous year.

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