Crs Report for Congress - Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2004-2011 (Paperback)

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 2004-2011, the value of arms transfer agreements with developing

nations comprised 68.6% of all such agreements worldwide. More recently, arms transfer

agreements with developing nations constituted 79.2% of all such agreements globally from

2008-2011, and 83.9% of these agreements in 2011.

The value of all arms transfer agreements with developing nations in 2011 was over $71.5 billion.

This was a substantial increase from $32.7 billion in 2010. In 2011, the value of all arms deliveries to developing nations was $28 billion, the highest total in these deliveries values since 2004.