Global Weapons Sales: Who's selling, who's buying?

So who is doing the selling of weapons and who is buying them? All the information in this post comes from Aviation Week and Space Tec., Sept 6th, 2004

Top Sellers: 2003
US 14.5 Billion
Russia 4.3 Billion
Germany 1.4 Billion
France 1.0 Billion
Italy 600 Million
China 300 Million
UK 100 Million

Russia sells the most in Asia with 49% of its sales occuring there.

Top Buyers: 1996-2003
UAE 15.7 Billion
China 13.7 Billion
Egypt 13.6 Billion
India 12.6 Billion
Isreal 9.9 Billion
Saudi A. 9.4 billion
South Korea 8.8 Billion
South Africa 5.3 Billion
Malaysia 5 Billion
Pakistan 3.8 Billion

Thats alot of buying

Why is the total for weapons buyers equal 97.8 billion and the total for sellers is 21.2 billion? Thats a huge gap I know some countries have been left out of arms sales but no where near enough to make up for the gap.

Who produced the 76.6 billion to make up for the gap in production to sales in weapons?

Oh nevermind thats sales for just 2003 I thought it was through 1996 like the buyers list

[edit on 8-9-2004 by ShadowXIX]

I am afraid the U.S. will pay a hugely unfavorable price for all it's advanced weapon sales.

Heres another paper talking about conventional arms sales to developing nations from 1996-2003

www.fas.org...