Morocco Ranks 9th in Middle East and North Africa Arms Imports, Report Finds

With 2.09% of imported arms, Morocco ranks 9th in the ranking. The main recipient countries of arms imported in the MENA region between 2015 and 2019 are: Saudi Arabia (29.5% of total imports in the region), Egypt (14.2%), Algeria (10.4%), the United Arab Emirates (8.5%) and Iraq (8.4%), Qatar (8.37%), Turkey (4.44%), Oman (2.90%), Morocco (2.09%).

The sum of these rates represents more than 93% of all arms imported in the region. Nothing has leaked on the amounts of money spent by these countries to import the arms.

The United States (48%), Russia (17%), France (10%), the United Kingdom (5%) and Germany (5%), Italy (2.69%), China (2.26%), Spain (2%), the Netherlands (1.45%), South Korea (0.88%) provided more than 94% of the arms imported in the MENA region.