This report presents for the first time data on Belgium and Luxembourg treated as separate countries instead of the Belgium/Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU). The long series for EA12, EU15, and IC24 have become obsolete and are henceforth discontinued.

Policy attention to the security industry increased substantially after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11th, 2001. With an increased demand for security, the global security market grew a tenfold to around €100 billion in 2011. Many studies expect that growth of the worldwide...