Lethal Trade

While they continue to blame developing nations for the arms race, western powers are no less responsible as they profit from the weapons trade. Incidentally, even smaller countries outdo India in arms imports.

Trading in conventional weapons (in US $ million) Biggest Arms Exporters Biggest Arms Importers
US 9894 China 1696
Russia 3905 S Korea 1677
Germany 1964 Egypt 1555
UK 1663 Turkey 1125
France 815 Malaysia 1120
Uzbekistan 464 Kuwait 1070
Holland 448 Thailand 888
Czech Rep. 326 India 770

Source: World Development Report, 1997; The World Bank

 

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