Afghanistan vs Iran: Arms imports

Arms imports: 65 million TIV in Afghanistan in 2021 and 42 million TIV in Iran in 2024, by SIPRI estimates. In 2020 the value was higher in Afghanistan, by 229 million TIV, or 120 times that in Iran.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Afghanistan has been higher since 2017, when it overtook Iran.
The world as a whole: 23.4 billion TIV in 2020.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Afghanistan	Iran	World
2025	–	–	33.3 billion
2024	–	42 million	30.6 billion
2023	–	21 million	29.5 billion
2022	–	–	33 billion
2021	65 million	–	26.8 billion
2020	231 million	2 million	23.4 billion
2019	379 million	3 million	26.9 billion
2018	312 million	3 million	27.3 billion
2017	235 million	3 million	31.2 billion
2016	170 million	413 million	31.4 billion
2015	131 million	11 million	28.7 billion
2014	323 million	14 million	27 billion
2013	253 million	14 million	27.4 billion
2012	518 million	39 million	27.9 billion
2011	632 million	89 million	29.9 billion
2010	365 million	87 million	25.8 billion
2009	326 million	92 million	24 billion
2008	148 million	57 million	24.1 billion
2007	40 million	325 million	26.5 billion
2006	3 million	418 million	24.4 billion
2005	33 million	53 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	117 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	283 million	19.2 billion
2002	34 million	435 million	17.7 billion
2001	–	526 million	18.3 billion
2000	–	417 million	20.5 billion
1999	–	321 million	25.3 billion
1998	–	374 million	27.9 billion
1997	–	172 million	28.9 billion
1996	–	608 million	23.7 billion
1995	–	289 million	22.9 billion
1994	–	451 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	960 million	25.8 billion
1992	–	406 million	24.3 billion
1991	1.24 billion	990 million	27.8 billion
1990	1.61 billion	444 million	28.6 billion
1989	1.82 billion	194 million	31.7 billion
1988	927 million	469 million	32.9 billion
1987	489 million	807 million	36.2 billion
1986	210 million	805 million	35.5 billion
1985	158 million	639 million	33.2 billion
1984	394 million	562 million	36.8 billion
1983	269 million	466 million	39.1 billion
1982	455 million	499 million	41.4 billion
1981	553 million	487 million	42 billion
1980	632 million	278 million	37.4 billion
1979	449 million	526 million	33.3 billion
1978	156 million	3.72 billion	39.2 billion
1977	75 million	5.48 billion	37 billion
1976	230 million	4.65 billion	33 billion
1975	137 million	5.23 billion	34.2 billion
1974	47 million	2.86 billion	32.9 billion
1973	–	2.05 billion	32.6 billion
1972	–	1.38 billion	28.7 billion
1971	25 million	2.1 billion	29.3 billion
1970	120 million	899 million	22.1 billion
1969	166 million	950 million	24.7 billion
1968	145 million	917 million	22.4 billion
1967	230 million	553 million	22.1 billion
1966	198 million	601 million	22.4 billion
1965	91 million	496 million	23.1 billion
1964	56 million	139 million	24.2 billion
1963	40 million	105 million	18.1 billion
1962	64 million	83 million	15.5 billion
1961	55 million	75 million	15 billion
1960	39 million	141 million	15.7 billion

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Major weapons the country received, in SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIV): what the arms are worth as military capability, priced by their production cost, not what was paid.
Source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, via the World Bank.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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