Which country is the largest producer of weapons, and also the largest seller in the world?

2001-present)

13w ago

The US and Russia are the two largest exporters of weapons. American manufacturers represent 30% of the global trade while Russian exports represent 26% of the worlds supply. While Americans export more in total numbers, it represents a smaller percentage of total GDP than that of Russia’s at 0.17% compared to 0.49%. Germany and Israel represent the two economies that have the largest percentage of their GDP in the arms trade. Israel’s exports are 1% of their GDP while German exports only represent 0.88% of their total GDP.

I believe the Americans are the largest in terms of total numbers, and if we include the domestic market there is no competition.

Target Shooter

15w ago

It's the United States with a defense budget of $664,000,000,000 ($664 billion dollars) and $10,000,000,000 ($10 billion dollars) worth of weapons exports. Russia comes in second, with a defense budget of $70,000,000,000 ($70 billion U.S. dollars) and $6.4,000,000,000 ($6.4 billion U.S. dollars) worth of weapons exports. (China may have a higher defense budget than Russia at $147,000,000,000 U.S dollars, but she only exports roughly $2.1,000,000,000 ($2.1 billion U.S. dollars) worth of weapons, so you decide who's second :)