Algeria vs Tunisia: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 108 million TIV in Algeria and 7 million TIV in Tunisia, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Algeria, by 101 million TIV, or 15 times that in Tunisia.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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Algeria has been higher since 2006, when it overtook Tunisia.
The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Algeria	Tunisia	World
2025	108 million	7 million	33.3 billion
2024	205 million	78 million	30.6 billion
2023	394 million	35 million	29.5 billion
2022	450 million	35 million	33 billion
2021	164 million	19 million	26.8 billion
2020	601 million	16 million	23.4 billion
2019	167 million	15 million	26.9 billion
2018	1.28 billion	181 million	27.3 billion
2017	1.16 billion	98 million	31.2 billion
2016	2.92 billion	43 million	31.4 billion
2015	897 million	7 million	28.7 billion
2014	715 million	50 million	27 billion
2013	361 million	40 million	27.4 billion
2012	662 million	–	27.9 billion
2011	1.13 billion	7 million	29.9 billion
2010	831 million	7 million	25.8 billion
2009	1.08 billion	–	24 billion
2008	1.52 billion	3 million	24.1 billion
2007	507 million	–	26.5 billion
2006	340 million	2 million	24.4 billion
2005	159 million	168 million	21.3 billion
2004	251 million	–	21.3 billion
2003	204 million	1 million	19.2 billion
2002	252 million	44 million	17.7 billion
2001	539 million	–	18.3 billion
2000	405 million	–	20.5 billion
1999	388 million	12 million	25.3 billion
1998	98 million	18 million	27.9 billion
1997	37 million	41 million	28.9 billion
1996	83 million	68 million	23.7 billion
1995	312 million	56 million	22.9 billion
1994	197 million	35 million	22.8 billion
1993	22 million	–	25.8 billion
1992	23 million	32 million	24.3 billion
1991	1.04 billion	20 million	27.8 billion
1990	737 million	4 million	28.6 billion
1989	455 million	48 million	31.7 billion
1988	319 million	17 million	32.9 billion
1987	384 million	56 million	36.2 billion
1986	163 million	–	35.5 billion
1985	368 million	314 million	33.2 billion
1984	660 million	119 million	36.8 billion
1983	700 million	103 million	39.1 billion
1982	1.35 billion	60 million	41.4 billion
1981	1.38 billion	56 million	42 billion
1980	1.34 billion	103 million	37.4 billion
1979	1.82 billion	122 million	33.3 billion
1978	1.27 billion	14 million	39.2 billion
1977	1.05 billion	73 million	37 billion
1976	130 million	10 million	33 billion
1975	56 million	14 million	34.2 billion
1974	13 million	14 million	32.9 billion
1973	110 million	26 million	32.6 billion
1972	180 million	4 million	28.7 billion
1971	14 million	0	29.3 billion
1970	14 million	49 million	22.1 billion
1969	79 million	23 million	24.7 billion
1968	58 million	17 million	22.4 billion
1967	525 million	5 million	22.1 billion
1966	439 million	–	22.4 billion
1965	354 million	40 million	23.1 billion
1964	181 million	4 million	24.2 billion
1963	90 million	7 million	18.1 billion
1962	63 million	–	15.5 billion
1961	7 million	6 million	15 billion
1960	–	44 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.
Ranks count the 110 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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