A new study regarding the total number of guns owned per country has found that Pakistani civilians own as many as 43.9 million firearms! More surprisingly, this figure is considered as the 4th largest worldwide. The United States, unsurprisingly, topped the list – with 393 million guns owned by civilians.
The study included 1 billion firearms in total, breaking down gun ownership figures by country, the number of firearms owned by civilians and the number of guns in use by the military. Out of this total, 857 million guns are being used by civilians in as many as 133 countries.
US citizens happen to be the most dominant owners of firearms. The Small Arms Survey revealed that Americans, who make up only 4% of the global population, own 46% of the total firearms.
The Methodology
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva carried out the study. It collected data by carrying out a survey in 56 countries and obtaining firearms registration data from 133 countries.
To calculate the number of military-owned firearms, the study used these two approaches:
- They used official data available for a country’s military.
- They estimated the number of firearm held based on the use of a doctrinal category multiplier that was applied to the number of military personnel in a country.
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Civilian-owned Firearms
The survey listed the top 25 countries where the civilians hold the most number of firearms. This includes both legal and illegal weapons surveyed for the year 2017.
Here is how the top 25 countries rank on the list:
- The United States of America: 393.3 million firearms.
- India with 71.1 million,
- China with 49.7 million,
- Pakistan with 43.9 million,
- Russia with 17.6 million,
- Brazil with 17.5 million,
- Mexico with 16.8 million,
- Germany with 15.8 million,
- Yemen with 14.9 million,
- Turkey with 13.2 million,
- France with 12.7 million,
- Canada with 12.7 million,
- Thailand with 10.3 million,
- Italy with 8.6 million,
- Iraq with 7.6 million,
- Nigeria with 6.2 million,
- Venezuela with 5.9 million,
- Iran with 5.9 million,
- Saudi Arabia with 5.5 million,
- South Africa with 5.4 million,
- Colombia with 5.o million,
- Ukraine with 4.4 million,
- Afghanistan with 4.3 million,
- Egypt with 3.9 million,
- Philippines with 3.8 million.
The United States has the highest guns-per-100-people ratio with 121 firearms for every 100 US citizens. Japan and Indonesia are on the other end of the list with less than one firearm per 100 people.
Military-Owned Firearms
Russia takes the top spot when it comes to the list of largest military-owned firearms holdings.
Here is how the top 10 countries on that list stand:
- Russia 30.3 million firearms,
- China 27.5 million firearms,
- North Korea 8.4 million firearms,
- Ukraine with 6.6 million,
- The United States with 4.5 million,
- India with 3.9 million,
- Vietnam with 3.8 million,
- Iran with 3.3 million,
- South Korea with 2.7 million,
- Pakistan with 2.3 million,
- Other countries – 39.7 million.
Note: The military data included in the list was provided by 28 countries only.
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In Pakistan people have more weapons than 43 Million
43M say oper hein rifles Pakistan mein
In Pakistan people have more weapons than 43 Million
43M say oper hein rifles Pakistan mein
In Pakistan people have more weapons than 43 Million
43M say oper hein rifles Pakistan mein
In Pakistan people have more weapons than 43 Million
Islam says that weapons are like a man’s jewelry so it’s no wonder that so many Muslim countries are in that list. Even the picture the author chose is of a gold plated weapon with Quranic verses on it. So much for the religion of peace!
Do you really happen to be that much of a stupid bigot, or are you making a special effort today? Where does the Quran say ‘Saddam Hussein’ in any of its verses, which is printed on that gold-plated gun?
point to be noted here. Everything in Arabic is not from Quran. kindly be careful.
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Americans hold 9 times firearms than Pakistan.
At least we should hold more than double than USA. See the “seerat” of Muhammad. Swords are there in the home! We should always be prepared.
Of course Pakistan is ranked so high, it is the sixth largest country by population. Most of the high population countries are listed. Surprises here are Indonesia and Bangladesh which despite being very highly populated are not featured on the list.