World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 2017

WMEAT 2017, the 35^th edition of World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT), published in December 2017, covers the years 2005 through 2015. The year 2015 was not covered in any previous edition of WMEAT.

WMEAT 2017 and future editions of WMEAT will be published only online, not in hardcopy; the statistical tables will be published only in spreadsheet format.

WMEAT 2017 consists of four downloadable documents:

1. WMEAT 2017 Introduction And Overview [191 KB], a PDF document.
2. WMEAT 2017 Table I Military Expenditures And Armed Forces Personnel, 2005 2015 [4 MB], an Excel spreadsheet workbook.
3. WMEAT 2017 Tables II IV Arms Transfer Deliveries, 2005 2015 [1 MB], an Excel spreadsheet workbook.
4. WMEAT 2017 Sources, Data And Methods [714 KB], a PDF document.

New features in this edition of WMEAT are described at the start of the “Sources, Data and Methods” section.

Comments, questions and suggestions may be addressed to WMEATeditor@state.gov.