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Contributions from
the Column
Monitor
Development finance: New confidence in emerging markets
WHO Commission: patents harm health
Increasing arms expenditure
Too early to lift Liberia embargo, says NGO
Somalia: Mogadishu’s new rulers
GTZ gets more business from abroad
What the UN wants the world to know more about
Drug eradication: The limits of „alternative development“
07/2006
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Increasing arms expenditure
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), worldwide military expenditure last year increased by 3.4% to $1,118 billion. That amounts to $173 per capita, 14 times more than is spent on official development assistance. According to SIPRI, the USA is responsible for around 80% of the increase, and also accounts for almost half of the world’s military expenditure last year. The USA is followed distantly by Britain, France, Japan and China, at between four and five percent respectively. Arms exports have also risen again since 2003, according to the Stockholm Institute, after having dropped steadily since the end of the Cold War. SIPRI estimates that global arms exports in 2004 amounted to $44 billion to $53 billion. Since 2001, the major exporters have been the USA, Russia, France, Germany and Britain. SIPRI bemoans that some governments increasingly tend to neglect obligations to report arms transfers diligently. The UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) for 2005 shows large discrepancies between export and import quantities. (ell)
On the internet:
http://yearbook2006.sipri.org
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