Personally, I would be interested in sensitivities instead of absolute values to capture trends. Say,
* the rate of change of CO2 production per country
* ...sensitivities of your given interactions
* money invested in reforestation
* change of healthcare expenses per country over time...
* expenses for "bio" products vs. "discount"/fast food
Nice! I think it would be nice to be able to group and cluster the countries, rather than just sort them by name. Either geopolitical clusters based on the data, or just by region might make it easier to spot some interesting connections.
Accoutring to SIPRI exports from Bulgaria in 2013 was US$ 6M, you can check it here http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/values.php.
Please keep in mind that figures are expressed in US$ m. at constant (1990) prices.
For example (and not to make a political point), the graph lists exports to Israel as $35m, but military aid was $2.8b in 2010
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/multimedia/military-spending...
They are some type of "trend indicator values" that "do not represent real financial flows but are a crude instrument to estimate volumes of arms transfers, regardless of the contracted prices, which can be as low as zero in the case of military aid".
I'm pretty sure the US exports for sale dollar amounts much much more than anyone else does.
There is also the question of the graphed "value" of small arms vs larger systems.
As a single example, I recently decided that I don't know enough about US-Israel relations and started reading more on the topic. A report[1] I found linked from Wikipedia states that the US has provided Israel with $121 billion dollars (non-inflation-adjusted) since WWII, almost all of it military aid. The graphic shows $35 million in exports to Israel for 2013, the report lists $2.9 billion dollars in military aid in 2013.
If those figures didn't make it onto the graphic, there are probably many others which also don't.
depends on the definition of "success" :) I'd say that no number of AKs would have protected the Assad regime the way the S-300/400 has done so far. The Su-27 platform has been kind of AK of multi-purpose fighter planes.
They licensed it to China, what was the Eastern block, etc. And, light arms are cheap, relative to other armament; they're not going to make a dent into those kinds of numbers.
Some patterns are interesting:
What appears to be almost 50% of Russia's exports go to India, while what appears to be almost 90% of China's exports go to the countries surrounding India (Pakistan, Bangladesh, and a Myanmar).
No idea where Bangladesh and Myanmar stand in relation to all this.
If you are a country with China for a neighbour, and have experience of having already fought (and lost) a war with China, I bet you would import a lot of arms. India is (among other things) importing arms to defend against China, not Pakistan.
China comes to mind, along with other east asia. But it's natural to exploit what you've already got.
And most of Russia's non-military industries turned out not competitive.
One reason being that the way these business and industries transferred into private holdings was always somewhat dubious (and hence the very real risk of losing these holdings with the next change in political winds e.g. Khodorkovsky). Anyone that got their hands on a piece of the soviet-pie tried to get as much out of it putting as little as possible into it.
I suppose if it was scaled by units sold instead of dollar values that may swing it towards inexpensive small arms like Glock pistols. Actually, that may be why USA and Russia are so enormous as exporters: they make expensive heavy arms like tanks, artillery, warplanes, ships, machine guns, bombs, while lots of places "gun guys" (which I sort of am) would think may show up (like Austria) won't because they only make relatively cheap small arms.
All of my arms are made in Russia or USA, if that means anything.
EDIT: Some other commenters have mentioned the stats don't include firearms and crew-served machine guns. Again, it's all the big stuff.
As an Australian, I found this statement difficult to parse. The idea of owning a gun is so foreign to me, let alone multiple.
Fortunately, Australia is yet to be invaded (unless you count our own ancestors heinous actions against the native owners of the land), or you would perhaps have a different perspective on just how foreign gun ownership can impact your life .. the time may well come, in our lifetimes or shortly thereafter, when Australians are even more subservient to a foreign power than they currently are ..
Ukraine was delivering relatively modern tanks - T-84 - to Thailand about the time when they outlawed Russian language while its army still had the old T-64. Historic lesson - putting your army on modern tanks should be the first step while outlawing a language of a major minority - second - and not otherwise :)
Where do countries import arms from?
For example, India apparently exports 10m worth of arms. To find out which countries buy from India is nearly impossible because of the relative scale of the visualization.
Phillipines apparently has less than $1M in exports, yet it's home to Armscor / Rock Island Armory, which sells quite a bit into the US.
Partly as a result, Israel gets nuclear-capable submarines from the Germans, as well as any other weapons it wants. This time the Israelis wanted more modern launchers for rocket-propelled grenades and anti-armor weapons, made by Dynamit Nobel Defence near the western German town of Siegen.[0]
[0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-weapons-e...
Example:
> In 2006, the deal for 2 Dolphin AIP boats was finalized at a total of $1.27 billion, with the German government picking up 1/3 of the cost.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/germany-may-sell-2-more-...
probably cheaper than having these people unemployed.
...quite different!
The graph is difficult to read, but it appears that most countries either have a significant arms industry (and mostly supply themselves and sell to others) or don't (and mostly buy from others). I don't see any countries that have significant amounts of both imports and exports.
