Argentina vs United Kingdom: Arms exports

Arms exports: 1 million TIV in Argentina in 2011 and 702 million TIV in United Kingdom in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2011 the value was higher in United Kingdom, by 1 billion TIV, or 1,000 times that in Argentina.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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United Kingdom has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1962.
The world as a whole: 29.9 billion TIV in 2011.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Argentina	United Kingdom	World
2025	–	702 million	33.5 billion
2024	–	884 million	30.7 billion
2023	–	1.32 billion	29.5 billion
2022	–	1.74 billion	33.3 billion
2021	–	639 million	27.1 billion
2020	–	652 million	24.1 billion
2019	–	886 million	27 billion
2018	–	682 million	27.4 billion
2017	–	1.1 billion	31.3 billion
2016	–	1.34 billion	31.5 billion
2015	–	1.18 billion	28.7 billion
2014	–	1.66 billion	27.1 billion
2013	–	1.51 billion	27.4 billion
2012	–	813 million	27.9 billion
2011	1 million	1 billion	29.9 billion
2010	–	1.15 billion	25.8 billion
2009	–	1.07 billion	24.4 billion
2008	–	931 million	24.1 billion
2007	–	924 million	26.5 billion
2006	2 million	957 million	24.5 billion
2005	–	990 million	21.4 billion
2004	–	1.23 billion	21.3 billion
2003	–	769 million	19.2 billion
2002	2 million	1.08 billion	17.7 billion
2001	–	1.35 billion	18.5 billion
2000	2 million	1.62 billion	20.5 billion
1999	–	1.32 billion	25.4 billion
1998	–	1.4 billion	27.9 billion
1997	–	2.36 billion	28.9 billion
1996	–	1.62 billion	23.7 billion
1995	5 million	1.46 billion	22.9 billion
1994	5 million	1.53 billion	23 billion
1993	13 million	1.38 billion	25.8 billion
1992	–	1.09 billion	24.3 billion
1991	0	1.53 billion	28.2 billion
1990	6 million	1.84 billion	30.2 billion
1989	–	3.5 billion	34.9 billion
1988	0	2.53 billion	36.8 billion
1987	4 million	3.6 billion	39.4 billion
1986	–	1.99 billion	39 billion
1985	–	2.14 billion	38.2 billion
1984	–	2.53 billion	41.6 billion
1983	5 million	2.54 billion	43.9 billion
1982	7 million	2.52 billion	46.2 billion
1981	31 million	2.36 billion	45.8 billion
1980	1 million	1.57 billion	42.2 billion
1979	8 million	1.54 billion	38.4 billion
1978	–	2.21 billion	42.4 billion
1977	–	2.2 billion	40 billion
1976	1 million	2.52 billion	36 billion
1975	–	2.23 billion	37.2 billion
1974	–	2.25 billion	36.6 billion
1973	–	2.79 billion	36.3 billion
1972	11 million	2.68 billion	34.5 billion
1971	–	2.35 billion	32.9 billion
1970	0	982 million	25.3 billion
1969	–	1.62 billion	28.1 billion
1968	8 million	1.68 billion	26.1 billion
1967	0	1.88 billion	25.6 billion
1966	–	1.42 billion	25.8 billion
1965	–	1.5 billion	25.8 billion
1964	4 million	1.41 billion	26.7 billion
1963	–	1.24 billion	20.3 billion
1962	6 million	1.07 billion	17.5 billion
1961	–	1.4 billion	16.4 billion
1960	–	2.19 billion	17.6 billion

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Major weapons the country sent abroad, 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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