The SIPRI Arms Industry Database contains information on arms-producing and military services companies (‘arms companies’). It includes public and private companies but excludes manufacturing or maintenance units of the armed services. The database contains financial data for arms companies based on open sources. Sources include company annual reports and articles in journals and newspapers. Estimates of arms revenue are made on the basis of open information. The data for all years is revised annually based on new information.
The SIPRI Arms Industry Database was created in 1989. At that time, it excluded data for companies in China, the Soviet Union and countries in Eastern Europe. The data set has been updated over the years. The current version includes data for Russian companies from 2002 onwards and for some Chinese companies from 2015 onwards.
For full details of SIPRI’s user rules for the database, please see the Terms and Conditions.
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Excel data
Data for the SIPRI Top 100 for 2002–22 (Excel)
Data for total arms sales for the SIPRI Top 100 for 2002–22 (Excel)