Arms export volume | Libya – yearly data, chart and table
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Figures are in millions of SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIVs). A '0' indicates that the volume of deliveries is between 0 and 0.5 million SIPRI TIV.
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Overview
The arms export of Libya in 2011 amounted to 0 millions of TIVs (Trend Indicator Value, a special metric developed by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute — SIPRI), which is на 27millions of TIVs less than in 2010, when it was 27 millions of TIVs. It has been falling in this country for already 2 years in a row. According to the SIPRI statistics, since 1972, the volume of arms export has not changed. The lowest arms export was recorded in 2011, with a value of 0 millions of TIVs. The maximum arms export of Libya was in 1979, when it reached 395 millions of TIVs. SIPRI calculates the volume of transfers to, from and between all parties using the TIV and the number of weapon systems or subsystems delivered in a given year. This data is intended to provide a common unit to allow the measurement of trends in the flow of arms to particular countries and regions over time.
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About indicator
The Arms Transfers Programme uses a wide variety of sources when collecting information for the database. The one common criterion is that the sources are open; that is, published and available to the general public. The sources include:
- Newspapers and other periodicals
- Monographs and annual reference works
- Press releases, annual reports and other information published by arms producing companies
- TV broadcasts
- Blogs, discussion fora and other Internet publications
- Defence white papers and similar policy documents
- The United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UN Register)
- National reports on arms exports and imports
- Defence budget documents and parliamentary records
The most frequently used sources are commercial periodicals specializing in military issues such as Defense News and Jane's Defence Weekly, newspapers and official governmental publications and the UN Register.
