{"id":4129,"date":"2023-03-14T04:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T22:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2025-03-26T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:18:10","slug":"sipri-report-on-indias-arms-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sipri-report-on-indias-arms-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"SIPRI Report on India\u2019s Arms Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About India\u2019s Arms Imports:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India remained the world\u2019s largest arms importer<\/strong> for the five-year period <strong>between<\/strong> <strong>2018-22.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>India accounted<\/strong> for an <strong>11 percent share<\/strong> of total <strong>global arms imports<\/strong> in 2018\u201322.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia accounted for 45% is India\u2019s imports<\/strong>, <strong>followed by France (29%)<\/strong> and the US (11%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia was the largest supplier<\/strong> of arms to India <strong>in both 2013\u201317 and 2018\u201322<\/strong>, but its share of total Indian arms imports <strong>fell from 64% to 45%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>India has seen an 11 percent drop<\/strong> in its arms import <strong>between 2013-17 and 2018-22.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India was the <strong>biggest arms export market to three countries<\/strong> \u2014 <strong>Russia, France, and Israel<\/strong> and the second largest export market to South Korea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Highlights of the SIPRI Report:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>US was the world\u2019s topmost military exporter<\/strong> in the past five years, accounting for 40% of global exports, <strong>followed by Russia (16%), France (11%), China (5.2%),<\/strong> and Germany (4.2%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>United States&#8217; share<\/strong> of global arms exports <strong>increased from 33 to 40 percent<\/strong>, while <strong>Russia&#8217;s fell from 22 to 16 percent<\/strong> between 2013-17 and 2018-22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>France\u2019s arms exports jumped 44%<\/strong> between 2013-17 and 2018-22, with <strong>India receiving 30% of its exports<\/strong> during the past five years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)?<\/h3>\n<p>SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. Based in Stockholm, SIPRI is regularly ranked among the most respected think tanks worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-remains-biggest-arms-importer-between-2018-22-despite-drop-in-overall-imports\/article66614120.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India remains biggest arms importer between 2018-22 despite drop in overall imports<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per SIPRI Report India remained the world\u2019s largest arms importer for the five-year period between 2018-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4129","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\/4129","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=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}