The volume of international supplies of major types of weapons worldwide increased by 9.2% between 2016-2020 and 2021-2025. At the same time, European countries more than tripled their arms imports, becoming the largest recipient region. This is evidenced by new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
According to SIPRI estimates, the growth in global arms supplies was the largest since the period 2011-2015. The main factor was a sharp increase in arms transfers to Europe – primarily to Ukraine, which received 9.7% of all global arms supplies in 2021-2025.
In total, European countries accounted for 33% of global arms imports, and imports in the region increased by 210% compared to the previous five-year period.
After Ukraine, the largest arms importers in Europe were Poland and the United Kingdom. Almost half of all supplies to European countries came from the United States (48%), followed by Germany (7.1%) and France (6.2%).
