This is a Swiss nonprofit that tracks global firearms holdings of registered and unregistered firearms. I admit I’ve never heard of this organization before. How do they get their “information”? Registered firearms. Unregistered firearms.
The Small Arms Survey’s vision is a world without illicit arms and armed violence.
Our Mission
The Small Arms Survey strengthens the capacity of governments and practitioners to reduce illicit arms flows and armed violence through three mutually reinforcing activities: the generation of policy-relevant knowledge, the development of authoritative resources and tools, and the provision of training and other services.
The Survey’s two main work streams
Data and Analytics
The Small Arms Survey conducts extensive research on global trends in small arms and armed violence with the aim of providing international and national stakeholders with the data required to have an informed debate and make evidence-based policy decisions. Our established and reliable methodologies enable us to deliver data and analysis that inform the development and monitoring of international and national initiatives.
The Data and Analytics (DnA) unit’s primary goal is to enable the broader small arms community (or specific regional and national partners) to use reliable and consistent information to make decisions. Projects and activities in this thematic area are primarily geared towards gathering and providing information and developing methodologies for research and analysis.
Data and analytics projects may have a global outlook or a specific regional or national focus. Their main output may be data, information, and analysis, or new or modified methodologies.
