Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI): "The SIPRI Top 100 lists the world’s 100 largest arms-producing companies (excluding Chinese companies), ranked by their arms sales. The list is based on the comprehensive SIPRI Arms Industry Database, which contains financial and employment data on the world’s major arms-producing companies. The SIPRI Top 100 for 2009 is the 22nd edition of the SIPRI Top 100—earlier versions are available here.... Of the SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing companies, 78 are based in the United States and Western Europe. These companies generated $368 billion in total arms sales, which is 91.7 per cent of the total arms sales of the SIPRI Top 100 arms producers in 2009...."
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