EU-27: number of weapon & ammunition manufacturers by country

221 companies in Germany produced either weapons or ammunition in 2020. Consequently, Germany had the most robust arms manufacturing industry among all European Union (E-27) member states. Italy and France had the second and third most enterprises in the segment with 157 and 122 manufacturers respectively. Estonia and Lithuania ranked among the countries with the smallest weapons or ammunition manufacturing industry, while also being among the countries with the highest defense spending GDP share.

Number of weapons & ammunition manufacturers in the European Union (EU-27) in 2020, by country

Characteristic	Number of enterprises
Germany	221
Italy	157
France	122
Czechia	98
Sweden	56
Austria	48
Poland	48
Spain	39
Norway	37
Greece	26
Finland	26
Denmark	17
Hungary	17
Slovenia	15
Netherlands	13
Portugal	8
Croatia	7
Bosnia and Herzegovina	7
Ireland	4
Latvia	3
Cyprus	3
Estonia	2
Lithuania	1
Luxembourg	1
North Macedonia	0

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Release date

February 2022

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Region

Europe, EU

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

Structural business statistics (SBS) describes the structure, conduct and performance of economic activities, down to the most detailed activity level (several hundred economic sectors).
number of enterprises: a count of the number of enterprises active during at least a part of the reference period.
The data refers to section [SBS_NA_IND_R2] of the Eurostat Database Statistics under the code [C254].

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