Figure 2. Arms exports by level of freedom of recipient state, 2018–22

The chart shows the share of arms exports, by volume, from the top 10 arms exporters in 2018–22 to states categorized by Freedom House as ‘free’, ‘partly free’ and ‘not free’. The final bar (in grey) shows the shares of all these three categories of states among all 195 states in the dataset, for comparison.

Chart: SIPRI © Notes: Arms export volumes are based on the SIPRI trend-indicator value (TIV), a measure of the volume of international transfers of major arms.The share of arms export volumes to recipient states is displayed in %. Source: Freedom House, ‘Freedom in the World’, 2023; and SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, 2023.