Who's Winning The Global Arms Race?

Two weeks agone looked at a position out of mapped visualizations of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, a tape of all major arms deals roughly the earth since 1950. However, if yous actually desire to know who is winning the global arms race as well as is thence the greatest peddler of expiry inward the world, yous remove the Arms Race Visualization.

The Arms Race Visualization allows yous to pick out whatever ii (or more) countries to thought how many arms the selected countries bring sold since 1949 as well as who they sold those arms to. After yous pick out the countries yous wishing to thought the map uses animated menstruum lines to exhibit where each selected province has exported arms as well as how many arms they bring sold.

The visualization animates through each yr since 1949. The timeline below the map shows the currently displayed year. The map sidebars exhibit the full book of arms sold for the currently displayed yr as well as the full for all years since 1949. It likewise shows the 5 countries which are the biggest customers of arms from your selected province as well as the full position out of arms that they bought.