Abbreviations and acronyms

The transfers, impacts of small through global databases. These include: the Global Firearms Holdings (GFH) database, which provides estimates of the number of firearms in the world, disaggregated by civilian, law enforcement, and military holdings; the Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database, which provides estimates on lethal violence, including sex-disaggregated data and data on lethal violence inflicted by firearms; the Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer, which analyses and ranks the transparency of global authorized small arms exporters; and the Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites (UEMS) database, which consolidates information on accidental explosions of ammunition stockpiles at storage sites.