Dataset · U.S. Department of State

Arms Imports (% of total imports)

11 years, 2009–2019 · 170 countries · 2 measures

What share of each country's imports are weapons and military services, valued in U.S. dollars by the State Department's World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers report. The report's final edition, published in 2021, covers 2009 to 2019.

This site holds every year from 2009 to 2019, read from U.S. Department of State’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Arms Imports (% of total imports) · the file

Newest: Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2019
Held: 11 years · 1,867 rows
Licence: Public domain or CC0

11years held
2009–2019years
1,867rows across every year
170countries in the newest
2measures per country
Public domain or CC0licence

0111 years

Every year

Every year comes from U.S. Department of State’s 2021 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2009bar height: countries covered, up to 1702019

Every year of Arms Imports (% of total imports) held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2019Newest	170	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2018	170	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2017	170	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2016	170	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2015	170	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2014	170	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2013	170	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2012	170	+1	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2011	169	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2010	169	±0	September 29, 2026	CSV
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2009	169	—	September 29, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: arms-imports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Arms Imports (% of total imports): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2019	Distinct	Empty
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	170	0
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	170	0
Arms imports (% of all imports)`arms_imports_share`Headline	The headline figure: Arms imports (% of all imports of goods and services).	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.036 share it61.0Somaliamiddle 0.3	36	0
Arms imports (billions of constant 2019 US$)`arms_imports_bn`Measure	The value of arms and military services delivered, in billions of constant 2019 U.S. dollars; blank where the report prints an asterisk, its mark for more than nothing but less than $0.05 billion.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.04 share it26.5Japanmiddle 0.3	32	74

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03170 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Arms Imports (% of total imports), by continent.
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Africa	50	50	50	51	51	51	51	51	51	51	51
Americas	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28
Asia	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	47
Europe	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Oceania	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
All	169	169	169	170	170	170	170	170	170	170	170

Who joined and who left

2012
+ South Sudan

Not in this dataset · 55 places this site covers

U.S. Department of State gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
U.S. Department of State
state.gov
2 · Their file
Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2019 (WMEAT 2021)
WMEAT-2021-Tables-II-IV-Arms-Transfer-Deliveries-2009-2019.xlsx
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
11 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as arms-imports-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/arms-imports

Precision

The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From Table II.d of the State Department's World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 2021, a U.S. Government work in the public domain, stored as the report prints it. The total imports the share is divided by come from the IMF by way of the World Bank and are not reproduced here.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially

No conditions at all. Crediting the publisher is still the courteous thing to do.

In plain words

A U.S. Government work in the public domain, free to reuse; the State Department asks to be credited as the source.

A credit line

Source: U.S. Department of State, Arms Imports (% of total imports), via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

U.S. Department of State. Arms Imports (% of total imports), 2009–2019 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/arms-imports

The publisher’s own citation: U.S. Department of State. World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 2021, Table II.d. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, December 2021.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

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