CRS: Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2003-2010, Richard F. Grimmett, Specialist in International Security, September 22, 2011
“This report is prepared annually to provide Congress with official, unclassified, quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries for the preceding eight calendar years for use in its policy oversight functions. All agreement and delivery data in this report for the United States are government-to-government Foreign Military Sales (FMS) transactions. Similar data are provided on worldwide conventional arms transfers by all suppliers, but the principal focus is the level of arms transfers by major weapons suppliers to nations in the developing world. Developing nations continue to be the primary focus of foreign arms sales activity by weapons suppliers. During the years 2003-2010, the value of arms transfer agreements with developing nations comprised 72.9% of all such agreements worldwide. More recently, arms transfer agreements with developing nations constituted 78.9% of all such agreements globally from 2007-2010, and 76.2% of these agreements in 2010. The value of all arms transfer agreements with developing nations in 2010 was over $30 billion. This was a decline from $49.8 billion in 2009. In 2010, the value of all arms deliveries to developing nations was nearly $21.9 billion, the highest total in these deliveries values since 2006 (in constant 2010 dollars).”
Via Steven Aftergood – “A collection of all CRS annual reports on conventional arms transfers dating back to 1982 is available on the Federation of American Scientists website here. Additional background is available from the FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project.”
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