Arms Sales Visualization
Code on Github
by Bewelge
Description
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This Visualisation shows global arms transfers from 1950-2017.

It was heavily inspired by this Video by Will Geary's (@wgeary) - https://vimeo.com/286751571

Since I wanted to see how other countries that are known to be large arms-exporters would look in such an animation, I decided to create an interactive version in which you can select any countries you want to be displayed.

The dataset was retrieved from SIPRI - the Stockholm International Peace Research Institue. - https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers

The SVG world map was retrieved from AMCharts at https://www.amcharts.com/svg-maps/?map=world

If you have a suggestion or found a bug feel free to open an issue on the
GitHub Repo.


Cleaned dataset by removing:
  • All deals where Supplier or Recipient is unknown.
  • All deals which had multiple sellers without specification which.
  • Deals with the UN, NATO, Regional Security System (RSSS), OSCE & African Union as seller or buyer



  • and consolidating the following groups:
  • Amal (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
  • ANC (South Africa)* -> South Africa
  • Anti-Castro rebels (Cuba)* -> Cuba
  • Armas (Guatemala) -> Guatemala
  • Biafra -> Nigeria
  • contras (Nicaragua)* -> Nicaragua
  • El Salvador (FMLN) -> El Salvador
  • ELF (Ethiopia)* -> Ethiopia
  • FNLA (Angola)* -> Angola
  • GUNT (Chad)* -> Chad
  • Haiti Rebels -> Haiti
  • Hezbollah (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
  • Huthi rebels (Yemen)* -> Yemen
  • Indonesia Rebels -> Indonesia
  • Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)* -> Cambodia
  • Lebanon Palestinian rebels* -> Lebanon
  • LF (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
  • libya GNC -> Libya
  • Libya HoR -> Libya
  • LTTE (Sri Lanka)* -> Sri Lanka
  • Macedonia (FYROM) -> Macedonia
  • MTA (Myanmar)* -> Myanmar
  • Mujahedin (Afghanistan)* -> Afghanistan
  • Northern Alliance (Afghanistan)* -> Afghanistan
  • Northern Cyprus -> Cyprus
  • SLA (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
  • SNA (Somalia)* -> Somalia
  • Southern rebels (Yemen)* -> Yemen
  • Soviet Union -> Russia
  • Syria Rebels -> Syria
  • UIC (Somalia)* -> Somalia
  • Ukraine Rebels* -> Ukraine
  • UNITA (Angola)* -> Angola
  • Viet Cong -> Vietnam
  • Viet Minh -> Vietnam
  • Viet Nam -> Vietnam
  • ZAPU -> Zimbabwe


  • * Other plugins used:
  • Color Picker - https://bgrins.github.io/spectrum/ by bgrins
  • jQuery