Azerbaijan Ranks Among the World's Largest Arms Buyers

Poland, Romania, and India topped the global arms purchasing ranking for 2024, as reported by the Center for Analysis of Global Arms Trade to RIA Novosti. Notably, Azerbaijan has entered the list of the top 20 arms-buying countries for 2024 based on the volume of contracts signed for military product supplies.

The ranking is distributed as follows:

• Poland – $15.625 billion (12.80%)
• Romania – $10.251 billion (8.40%)
• India – $9.410 billion (7.71%)
• Israel – $8.2 billion (6.72%)
• Netherlands – $7.922 billion (6.49%)
• Turkey – $7 billion (5.73%)
• Iraq – $5.189 billion (4.25%)
• South Korea – $3.611 billion (2.96%)
• Saudi Arabia – $3.605 billion (2.95%)
• Indonesia – $3.519 billion (2.88%)
• Germany – $3.092 billion
• Serbia – $3.006 billion
• Japan – $2.854 billion
• Norway – $2.845 billion
• Egypt – $2.4 billion
• Azerbaijan – $2.220 billion
• United States – $2.073 billion
• Austria – $2.068 billion
• Greece – $1.950 billion
• Lithuania – $1.796 billion