Answered By: James Capobianco
Last Updated: Jun 16, 2023     Views: 249

Listed below are several valuable resources you can use to locate statistics on military expenditures and the defense industry in individual countries.

Business Source Complete (Harvard Login)
Includes detailed BMI Defence & Security Reports with statistics on defense expenditures by the government; chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons programs and defense procurement and defense budget by country. Search using terms like BMI "defence and security report" AND specific country names.

Military Balance (Harvard Login)
Published by the IISS, the Military Balance is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defense economics of 170 countries world-wide, produced annually by the IISS since 1961.

SIPRI Military Expenditure Database
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) military expenditure data is based on open sources only, including a SIPRI questionnaire which is sent out annually to all countries included in the database.

Other resources on military spending, expenditures, and arms purchases can be found in the Statistics Section of the HKS Library Research Guide on National and International Security