ICPSR Metadata record for World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers, 1983-1993 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers, 1983-1993 United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2006-01-18 6516 doi://10.3886/ICPSR06516.v1
This data collection, which focuses on military spending and arms transfers, supplies information on 166 developed and developing countries of the world. Data are provided in four tables. Table I (Part 1) consists of military expenditures, armed forces, Gross National Product, central government expenditures, and population by region, organization, and country for 1983-1993. Table II (Part 2) includes arms transfer deliveries and total trade by region, organization, and country for 1983-1993. Table III (Part 3) provides cumulative information for 1991-1993 on arms transfer deliveries by major supplier and recipient country. Table IV (Part 4) contains arms transfer deliveries and agreements for 1983-1993 by supplier and recipient region.
 UniverseScheme06516 World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers [Trade] Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00061. ICPSR.XI.D IDRC.I armaments armed forces arms exports arms imports arms trade arms transfers defense (military) defense spending economic indicators gross national product (GNP) international trade military expenditures military strength nations population characteristics weapons Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, Latin America, North America, South America, Global 1983 1993 aggregate data The universe consists of 171 countries (166 in 1993), including most members of the United Nations, as well as nonmembers Switzerland and Taiwan. Data are taken from various publications of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the United States Bureau of the Census, and other United States government agencies. Additional data sources include GOVERNMENT FINANCE STATISTICS YEARBOOK, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE STATISTICS, SIPRI YEARBOOK: WORLD ARMAMENTS AND DISARMAMENT, HANDBOOK OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS, 1992, and THE WORLD FACT BOOK, published annually. 1992 1993 ICPSR
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(1) Data are provided in tabular form. Monetary values are expressed in United States dollars. (2) Although Table V appears in the documentation, these data were not received by ICPSR.