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      "date": "2008-10-23",
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      "title": "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2000-2007",
      "summary": "This report is prepared annually to provide Congress with official, unclassified, quantitative data\non\nconventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries for the\npreceding eight calendar years for use in its policy oversight functions. All agreement and delivery\ndata in this report for the United States are government-to-government Foreign Military Sales (FMS)\ntransactions. Similar data are provided on worldwide conventional arms transfers by all suppliers,\nbut the principal focus is the level of arms transfers by major weapons suppliers to nations in the\ndeveloping world.\n Developing nations continue to be the primary focus of foreign arms sales activity by weapons\nsuppliers. During the years 2000-2007, the value of arms transfer agreements with developing\nnations comprised 66.6% of all such agreements worldwide. More recently, arms transfer\nagreements with developing nations constituted 67.7% of all such agreements globally from\n2004-2007, and 70.5% of these agreements in 2007.\n The value of all arms transfer  agreements  with developing nations in 2007 was\nnearly $42.3\nbillion. This was an increase from $38.1 billion in 2006. In 2007, the value of all arms\n deliveries \nto developing nations was $17.2 billion, the lowest total in these deliveries values for the entire\n2000-2007 period (in  constant  2007 dollars).\n Recently, from 2004-2007, the United States and Russia have dominated the arms market in\nthe developing world, with both nations either ranking first or second for 3 out of 4 years in the\nvalue of arms transfer  agreements . From 2004-2007, Russia made nearly $39.3 billion,\n27.9% of\nall such agreements, expressed in  constant  2007 dollars. During this same period, the\nUnited States\nmade $34.7 billion in such agreements, 24.6% of all such agreements. Collectively, the United\nStates and Russia made 52.5% of all arms transfer agreements with developing nations during this\nfour-year period.\n In 2007, the United States ranked first in arms transfer  agreements  with developing\nnations with\n$12.2 billion or 28.8% of these agreements. The United Kingdom was second with $9.8 billion or\n23.2% of such agreements. Russia was third with $9.7 billion or 23%. In 2007, the United States\nranked first in the value of arms  deliveries  to developing nations at $7.6 billion, or\n44.2% of all such\ndeliveries. Russia ranked second at $4.6 billion or 26.7% of such deliveries. \n In 2007, Saudi Arabia ranked first in the value of arms transfer  agreements  among\nall\ndeveloping nations weapons purchasers, concluding $10.6 billion in such agreements. India ranked\nsecond with $5 billion in such agreements. Pakistan ranked third with $4.2 billion.",
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