State Dept. Publishes Final 'World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers' Report

The State Department announced the release of the 38th and last edition of the "World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers" report, covering arms transfers from 2009 through 2019. The publication's mandate was repealed in December. The report was “designed to be a convenient reference on annual military expenditures, arms transfers, armed forces, selected economic data, and relative indicators consisting of pertinent military-economic ratios,” the State Department said Aug. 18. All past publications are archived.