{"id":31212,"date":"2025-03-11T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31212"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:40:24","slug":"global-arms-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-arms-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Arms Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Global Arms Trade Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>India was the second-largest arms importer during the period between 2020 and 2024, though the trade figures decreased by 9.3% between 2015-19 and 2020-24, show the recent data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).<\/p>\n<h2>About Global Arms Trade<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ukraine <\/strong>became the <strong>largest importer<\/strong> of major arms in the world <strong>during the period<\/strong> between <strong>2020 and 2024, <\/strong>clocking a nearly 100-fold rise in imports compared with the figures for 2015\u20132019.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ukraine<\/strong> received <strong>8.8% of global arms imports<\/strong> in 2020-24.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Four countries in Asia and Oceania\u2014<strong>India, Pakistan, Japan, and Australia<\/strong>\u2014 ranked <strong>among the 10 largest arms importers globally<\/strong> in 2020-24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India <\/strong>was the <strong>second-largest arms importer,<\/strong> though the <strong>trade figures decreased<\/strong> by 9.3% <strong>between 2015-19 and 2020-24.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>largest share<\/strong> of Indian arms imports (<strong>36%) came from Russia<\/strong>, a significantly smaller share than in 2015-19 (55%) and 2010-14 (72%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>India <\/strong>was the <strong>biggest arms export destination for<\/strong> both <strong>Russia and France.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> U.S.<\/strong> further increased its <strong>share of global arms exports<\/strong> to <strong>43%,while Russia\u2019s <\/strong>exports fell by 64%, accounting for <strong>7.8% <\/strong>of global arms exports, <strong>falling behind France(9.6%),<\/strong> which emerged as the <strong>second largest arms exporter<\/strong> in 2020-24.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>India<\/strong> received by far the <strong>largest share of French arms exports (28%)<\/strong>\u2014almost twice the share that went to all European recipients combined (15%).<\/li>\n<li>Russia delivered major arms to 33 countries in 2020-24, of which two-thirds went to three countries \u2014 India (38%), China (17%), and Kazakhstan (11%).<\/li>\n<li>European arms imports overall grew by 155% between the same periods as the continent rearms itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>China dropped out of<\/strong> the list of <strong>top 10 arms importers<\/strong> for the first time since 1990-94, showcasing its expanding domestic industrial base.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arms imports by Pakistan grew by 61% <\/strong>between 2015-19 and 2020-24.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li><strong>China <\/strong>became even more dominant as its supplier, accounting for <strong>81% of Pakistan\u2019s arms imports <\/strong>in 2020-24, compared with 74% in 2015\u20131.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global transfer volume: <\/strong>The <strong>overall volumeof arms transfers<\/strong> globally <strong>remained at roughly the same levelas in 2015-19 and 2010-14<\/strong> (but was 18% higher than in 2005\u20132009), as increasing imports in Europe and the Americas were offset by decreases in other regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Global Arms Trade FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which country is the largest arms exporter?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. United States<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which country is the largest arms importer?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ukraine\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is India\u2019s position in global arms imports?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. India was the second-largest arms importer between 2015-19 and 2020-24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/123426\/OPS\/GOGE3MB6O.1+GJNE3OMEA.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India was the second-largest arms importer, though the trade figures decreased by 9.3% between 2015-19 and 2020-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}