Arms Exports, 1984-1988

in millions of 1985 US dollars

  1. . USSR: 63,789
  2. . USA: 50,298
  3. . France: 17,975
  4. . UK: 8,797
  5. . Mainland China: 7,847
  6. . West Germany: 6,758
  7. . Czechoslovakia: 2,673
  8. . Italy: 2,638
  9. . Sweden: 1,571
  10. . Brazil: 1,468
  11. . Netherlands: 1,447
  12. . Israel: 1,370
  13. . Canada: 1,165
  14. . Spain: 1,136
  15. . Egypt: 947
Others: 4,650
Total: 174,529

Arms Imports, 1984-1988

in millions of 1985 US dollars

  1. . Iraq: 16,048
  2. . India: 14,263
  3. . Saudi Arabia: 9,289
  4. . Japan: 8,190
  5. . Egypt: 7,987
  6. . Syria: 7,107
  7. . Czechoslovakia: 5,804
  8. . North Korea: 5,772
  9. . Angola: 4,391
  10. . Turkey: 3,975
  11. . Spain: 3,921
  12. . Poland: 3,556
  13. . Pakistan: 3,365
  14. . Canada: 3,351
  15. . Iran: 3,348
Others: 74,162
Total 174,529

Total imports by the developed world were 59,411 over this period; but the Third World imported 115,118.

Source: James Adams, Engines of War: Merchants of Death and the New Arms Race (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990), Appendix 3.

Cf. my review of Keller, Arm in Arm