India world's largest arms importer, despite ongoing efforts to bolster its defense-industrial base between 2019 and 2023.

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India world's largest arms importer, despite ongoing efforts to bolster its defense-industrial base between 2019 and 2023. The country accounted for a significant 9.8% of the total global arms imports. Recent data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reveals a 4.7% increase in India's arms imports between 2014-18 and 2019-23. Although Russia remained India's main arms supplier (accounting for 36% of its arms imports), this was the first five-year period since 1960-64 when deliveries from Russia (or the Soviet Union before 1991) made up less than half of India's arms imports.


      Russia has historically been India's primary weapons supplier, accounting for 36% of its arms imports.

      India's position as the top arms importer is followed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Ukraine, Pakistan, Japan, Egypt, Australia, South Korea, and China.

      Among the top arms exporters, the United States leads with a 42% share, followed by France and Russia.

 

     


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