💣THE SIPRI TOP 100 ARMS‐PRODUCING AND MILITARY SERVICES COMPANIES, 2016

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💣THE SIPRI TOP 100 ARMS‐PRODUCING AND MILITARY SERVICES COMPANIES, 2016

Arms sales of the world’s 100 largest arms­producing and military services companies (the Top 100) totalled $374.8 billion in 2016 (see table 1).

This represents a 1.9 per cent increase compared with 2015 ( gures exclude China, see box 1).1

This is the rst year of growth in Top 100 arms sales after ve consecutive years of decline. The arms sales of the Top 100 for 2016 are 38 per cent higher than those for 2002, when SIPRI began reporting corporate arms sales (see gure 1).

https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/fs_arms_industry_2016.pdf

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