The SIPRI Arms transfers database and the SIPRI Military expenditure database use the following regions.
Africa
- North Africa: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Benin, Biafra (1967-70), Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Republic of), Congo (Democratic Republic of, DRC), Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, eSwatini, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zanzibar (1963) Zimbabwe.
Americas
- Central America and the Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago.
- North America: Canada, USA.
- South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Asia and Oceania
- Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
- East Asia: China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan.
- South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
- South-East Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam (–1975), Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam.
- Oceania: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
Europe
- Central Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia (–1992), Czechia, Estonia, German Democratic Repulic (GDR, –1990), Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia (former, –1991).
- Eastern Europe: Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, USSR (–1991), Russia.
- Western Europe: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK.
Middle East
Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, North Yemen (–1990), South Yemen (–1990), Yemen.