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WMEAT Will No Longer be Published

WMEAT 2021, which the Department of State published in December 2021, is the final edition of World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT). Section 5114(b)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 repealed the 1994 statutory provision that required the Department of State to publish an edition of WMEAT every year. Consistent with this repeal, the Department of State will cease to produce and publish WMEAT.

Copies of all editions of WMEAT dating from 1974 to 2021 remain publicly accessible as Adobe PDF or Excel spreadsheet documents on the pages listed below.

Reports

World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 2021

World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 2019

World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 2018

World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 2017

Archived Reports

U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future