In this map i observed that there are not many countres that have very high armament importations. The two that standed out the best were india and China. India has a constant hich level of armament importation, it stays in very high levels. China how ever at first stays at the buttom although in the 1990’s there’s a great boost of ups and downs. A very interesting point is that in 1997 all of the countries have a lower percentage of army importation except for Saudi Arabia which has the highest as well as turkey which almost reaches Saudi Arabia’s percentage. In 1998 turkey, japan, greece and isrlael also has a sudden change of army importation. South korea’s percentage also rises i think because of its rivalry with north korea and north korea also rises of its well mantained military. During the years of 2000 Japan and China have a really large movement upwards altough they keep going up and down. Most of the countries are eastern,south american and some european.
I chose these indicators because the armament influece the stabiliy of a country and its military and terrorist actions. It is important to know how much countries import army because it shows the worry of a country of war or of being attacked as well as making sure that they have a well equiped country. Although not everything goes to the military and as well as to trafficants and terrorists. I really think that these indicators are important because it allows countries know how much each country is importing so they know the reasons why they are importing so much and if they aprove with it. It also helpes me see how the countries work and thier rules about armament of any kind because its probably a cause of political views or problems in a country.
I have many questions about this graph. Im really interested to know why countries such as China, India, Iraq etc. have a such high level of imports and if its caused by any wars or troubles between countries. Something that impacted me were that i thought that countries such as the U.S or France and other powerful countries have such a low army importation. Seing the U.S as such a big country and with such an important opinion over countrie’s choices they risk thier nation which could be attacked and have such a low percentage.
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