Defense & Security — item 12 of 20

Aerospace Defense Contractors

Sourced Tracked by SIPRI's Top 100 Arms-Producing and Military Services Companies list, which ranks the world's largest aerospace and defense contractors by annual arms sales. SIPRI

Aerospace defense contractors sit within Defense & Security, the sector protecting the conditions under which every other endeavor on this list can function at all — a category with a real, cited scale: $2,887B in world military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI). Aerospace defense contractors are one of 18 of the category's 20 items directly backed by SIPRI's tracked databases — arms transfers, the Top 100 arms-producing companies, military expenditure, and nuclear forces, rather than an editorial judgment call.

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Aerospace defense contractors are 1 of 20 items in Defense & Security. See the full ranked list, or browse all 20 Human Endeavors categories.