| Description |
1 online resource (approximately 8 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
SIPRI fact sheet |
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SIPRI fact sheet
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| Summary |
The SIPRI Top 100 lists the world's 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies (excluding Chinese companies), ranked by their arms sales in 2012. The list is based on the comprehensive SIPRI Arms Industry Database, which contains financial and employment data on the world's major arms-producing and military services companies. The arms sales totaled $395 billion. The total for 2012 was down 4.2% from the Top 100 for 2011, the second consecutive annual fall. Nearly three-quarters of the companies in the Top 100 for 2012 are headquartered in North America or Western Europe, and they accounted for 87% of the total arms sales. Arms sales by Top 100 companies from the rest of the world rose by 14% in real terms, and these companies' share of the total Top 100 arms sales is now at its highest ever level. The total estimated arms sales of the six Russian companies in the Top 100 grew by 28% in real terms. The U.S. withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 affected the 2012 arms sales of companies such as KBR, whose arms sales fell by 60%. In contrast, high levels of activity in Afghanistan meant that DynCorp increased its arms sales by 10%. Cuts in military spending in Western Europe and the fall in the demand for heavy arms has affected the sales of companies such as the tank producer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (down 21%) and the shipbuilder Thyssen Krupp (down 27%) |
| Notes |
"January 2014." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF caption (SIPRI, viewed February 4, 2014) |
| Subject |
Arms transfers -- Statistics
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Arms transfers.
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| Genre/Form |
Statistics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wezeman, Pieter D., author.
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, issuing body.
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