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If you’ve ever wondered how the arms trade—both civilian and military—pans out around the globe, be puzzled no longer. Google has just created a wonderful little visualisation, which shows all the (known) arms trade between the globe’s countries over the past 20 years.
The fully interactive world map lets you spin the globe to dig around and see how varying countries stack up. What’s particularly interesting is the way that Google’s data mining has allowed it to break down imports and exports by civilian and defense spending, as well as taking into account ammunition.
Personally, I was a little shocked to see that Spain exports £65 million of ammunition annually, and that Italy exports £130 million of civilian weapons in the same period. Still, that’s small fry compared to the US, which imports £640m of small arms and ammunition every year. Let us know if you spot anything interesting. [Google]
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ok i now know why Italy economy hasn’t collapsed yet! $370 million exported!
If you go to the original source and focus on UK apparently we import £millions for civilian use…? As a civilian I’m pretty sure I’m not allowed to import arms…..there can’t be that many people shooting pheasants
How else do you think you get good enough to win the Olympic gold?!
We should be making them then, not importing them !
Agreed, we should be, and I’m sure we do make munitions somewhere… Can’t for the life of me remember where though…
I see the IRA don’t make and sell any of their own weapons?