| Did you know that 60 percent of all violent deaths are due to small arms and light weapons? Small arms, such as revolvers, assault rifles and light machine guns, and ammunition represent a $8.5 billion industry, and three quarters of the world's small arms lie in the hand of civilians--more than 650 million civilian arms. As part of the Google Ideas initiative on illicit networks, we've created an interactive data visualization of global small arms and ammunition trading to better understand and map the global arms trade.
The tool was produced by Google's Creative Lab team in collaboration with the Igarape Institute. More than 1 million data points on imports and exports of small arms, light weapons and ammunition between 1992 and 2010 and across 250 states and territories across the world were provided by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) small arms database... |
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