VIDEO | Flow of US arms sales has accelerated in the last 67 years

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In the first decade of the new millennium, there was a greater purchase of war material by South Korea and Israel, while in the seven following years the biggest buyers were Saudi Arabia, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.

UN.- The pace of US exports to different countries around the world has accelerated in the last 67 years, as demonstrated by a video made by the scientist Will Geary, in which he traces the international arms transfers by the United States, based on data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).

"The United States is the largest arms exporter in the world. I was curious to see what this would look like over time, so I mapped the flow of arms transfers that left the US between 1950 and 2017, "Geary said through his Twitter account.

According to the video, the United States exported the largest number of weapons to Europe, Canada, Japan and Turkey in the 1950s. In the 60s, the biggest buyer was Germany. Iran is in the tenth position for that decade, but in the 70 leads the list followed by Israel.

During the 1980s, the largest importers were Japan and Saudi Arabia, a trend that was maintained during the 1990s.

In the first decade of the new millennium, there was a greater purchase of war material by South Korea and Israel, while in the following seven years (until 2017) the largest buyers were Saudi Arabia, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.

After the United States, the next largest arms exporters are Russia, France, Germany, China, the United Kingdom and Spain. According to a report from Sipri last March, between 2013 and 2017 Washington made 34% of total global arms sales (a notable increase from 25% in 2008-2012), Hispantv said.