Company Index Stats

How many Defense & Aerospace companies are there?

There are 201,452 Defense & Aerospace companies in the DiscoLike index as of October 2026.

Companies can carry several industry labels, so counts overlap.

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Defense & Aerospace covers defence contractors, aerospace manufacturers and the precision engineering and machining base supplying them.

Where it meets Manufacturing

Machine shops, contract manufacturers and metal fabrication appear in both. The customer separates them: this group is the supply chain selling into defence and aerospace programmes.

Small employers are relatively scarce
1-10 employee companies make up 64% (27,417), versus 76% index-wide; that share ranks 51st highest of 53.
Government sellers are overrepresented
29% sell to government (B2G), against 2% index-wide, making B2G a substantial segment.
US firms dominate known locations
United States companies number 79,154, or 41% of those with a known country; a US cut retains the largest national block.

129,153 carry Defense & Aerospace as their main industry; 72,299 carry it as an additional label.

By Country

Top 30 countries for Defense & Aerospace

1United States79,154
2United Kingdom12,677
3Germany8,872
4China7,204
5India6,505
6Canada6,027
7France5,430
8Australia4,829
9Russia4,726
10Türkiye4,342
11Italy3,330
12Netherlands2,667
13Spain2,627
14Brazil2,347
15Poland2,259
16Switzerland2,163
17Ukraine2,103
18Japan2,084
19United Arab Emirates1,936
20Czechia1,926
21Sweden1,641
22South Korea1,619
23South Africa1,422
24Indonesia1,295
25Norway1,142
26Belgium1,136
27Denmark1,093
28Israel1,072
29Austria1,063
30Mexico939
All 72 countries with Defense & Aerospace companies
  • Finland935
  • Singapore909
  • Hungary817
  • New Zealand779
  • Greece720
  • Taiwan689
  • Malaysia682
  • Romania630
  • Pakistan609
  • Ireland608
  • Saudi Arabia577
  • Portugal545
  • Slovakia537
  • Hong Kong SAR China512
  • Colombia501
  • Vietnam496
  • Lithuania488
  • Estonia473
  • Argentina471
  • Thailand456
  • Bulgaria440
  • Nigeria405
  • Philippines386
  • Chile354
  • Bangladesh279
  • Iran279
  • Latvia239
  • Slovenia238
  • Luxembourg219
  • Cyprus202
  • Kenya202
  • Peru198
  • Serbia196
  • Croatia185
  • Algeria181
  • Egypt180
  • Kazakhstan175
  • Ecuador127
  • Morocco123
  • Jordan111
  • Oman103
  • Belarus101

By Company Size

Employee-size distribution

1-10 employees27,417
11-50 employees10,883
51-200 employees3,783
201-500 employees601
501-1000 employees182
1001-5000 employees180

By Region

Regional rollups for Defense & Aerospace

European Union

39,320

DACH

12,098

Nordics

4,811

Benelux

4,022

GCC

2,616

ASEAN

4,224

ANZ

5,608

Map

Where Defense & Aerospace companies are

Most Defense & Aerospace companies are concentrated in United States, United Kingdom, Germany.

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Methodology

Aggregate counts from the DiscoLike index of 80M+ companies. Companies without a resolvable location are counted under 'unknown', and cells below the minimum count threshold are folded into an 'other' bucket. Industry and business-type categories overlap: a company carrying several labels is counted in each.

Updated monthly. Current snapshot: October 2026. See the full Company Index Stats.

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DiscoLike, "Defense & Aerospace companies", Company Index Stats, October 2026. https://discolike.com/company-stats/defense-aerospace/

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