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Asia Power Index
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Global defence partnerships

Arms trade patterns indicative of global security partnerships and collaboration across defence industries

This chart shows the distribution of countries based on their weighted score for global defence partnerships. Embed

Global defence partnerships

Arms trade patterns indicative of global security partnerships and collaboration across defence industries

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rank
Year
Weighting 20%
  • 1 100.0 — United States
  • 2 +1 22.7 Russia
  • 3 −1 20.6 China
  • 4 +2 16.7 South Korea
  • 5 −1 10.2 Australia
  • 6 −1 8.3 India
  • 7 5.4 Pakistan
  • 8 4.8 Japan
  • 9 +1 2.5 — Singapore
  • 10 −1 2.2 — New Zealand
  • 11 +1 1.8 — Taiwan
  • 12 −1 1.5 Indonesia
  • 13 1.4 — Thailand
  • 14 +3 1.3 North Korea
  • 15 −1 1.0 — Philippines
  • 16 0.9 — Myanmar
  • 17 0.3 — Malaysia
  • 18 +1 0.3 — Bangladesh
  • 19 −4 0.2 — Vietnam
  • 20 +7 0.1 — Brunei
  • 21 +6 0.0 — Sri Lanka
  • 22 +5 0.0 — Laos
  • 27 0.0 — Cambodia
  • 27 0.0 — Mongolia
  • 27 0.0 — Nepal
  • 27 −7 0.0 — Papua New Guinea
  • 27 0.0 — Timor-Leste
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