Arms Transfers To The Third World 1971 85 PDF Download

This report provides unclassified background data on transfers of conventional armaments to Third World nations by the major supplying nations. It covers the years from 1985-1992 and reviews in detail the values of arms transfer agreements and deliveries, as well as the specific numbers of important conventional weapons delivered to the Third World during this time period. The value of all arms transfer agreements with the Third World in 1992 was $23.9 billion. This was by far the lowest yearly total, calculated in either nominal or real terms, for any of the years during the 1985-1992 period. The general decline in the value of new arms transfer agreements with the Third World was dramatically reversed in 1990 as the result of major new arms agreements related to the Gulf War. However, in 1991 the pattern of overall decline in the value of arms transfer agreements with the Third World resumed in an equally dramatic fashion. This pattern of decline continued in 1992. At the same time, in 1992 the value of all arms deliveries to the Third World ($12.7 billion) was the lowest total, in nominal and real terms, by a substantial margin for any year during the 1985-1992 period. This was the fifth consecutive year since 1987 that the value of all arms deliveries to the Third World dropped significantly. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.