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Over the past ten years our understanding of the small arms trade has deepened as major exporting states have become increasingly transparent in reporting on their small arms and light weapons transfers. This trend towards greater transparency is bolstered by some states’ efforts to broaden the contents of their national arms export reports while simultaneously providing more detailed and reliable information on their transfers. Yet, although transparency has grown across all seven parameters for both high-scoring and low-scoring countries, progress is not uniform and the average score of all states remains below 50 per cent of the maximum possible.