Australia vs Brazil: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 108 million TIV in Australia and 153 million TIV in Brazil, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Brazil, by 45 million TIV, or 1.42 times that in Australia.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Brazil has been higher since 2024, when it overtook Australia.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Australia	Brazil	World
2025	108 million	153 million	33.5 billion
2024	73 million	112 million	30.7 billion
2023	81 million	54 million	29.5 billion
2022	19 million	10 million	33.3 billion
2021	175 million	86 million	27.1 billion
2020	406 million	164 million	24.1 billion
2019	129 million	21 million	27 billion
2018	39 million	102 million	27.4 billion
2017	101 million	36 million	31.3 billion
2016	136 million	134 million	31.5 billion
2015	79 million	53 million	28.7 billion
2014	94 million	31 million	27.1 billion
2013	54 million	31 million	27.4 billion
2012	45 million	33 million	27.9 billion
2011	143 million	32 million	29.9 billion
2010	137 million	147 million	25.8 billion
2009	86 million	44 million	24.4 billion
2008	57 million	93 million	24.1 billion
2007	53 million	54 million	26.5 billion
2006	26 million	44 million	24.5 billion
2005	49 million	1 million	21.4 billion
2004	2 million	46 million	21.3 billion
2003	44 million	–	19.2 billion
2002	47 million	21 million	17.7 billion
2001	43 million	–	18.5 billion
2000	–	–	20.5 billion
1999	–	–	25.4 billion
1998	4 million	18 million	27.9 billion
1997	14 million	27 million	28.9 billion
1996	10 million	27 million	23.7 billion
1995	36 million	38 million	22.9 billion
1994	24 million	54 million	23 billion
1993	30 million	40 million	25.8 billion
1992	–	99 million	24.3 billion
1991	84 million	129 million	28.2 billion
1990	156 million	108 million	30.2 billion
1989	18 million	53 million	34.9 billion
1988	12 million	208 million	36.8 billion
1987	89 million	216 million	39.4 billion
1986	57 million	140 million	39 billion
1985	10 million	209 million	38.2 billion
1984	62 million	280 million	41.6 billion
1983	31 million	204 million	43.9 billion
1982	26 million	128 million	46.2 billion
1981	17 million	71 million	45.8 billion
1980	15 million	160 million	42.2 billion
1979	22 million	80 million	38.4 billion
1978	21 million	204 million	42.4 billion
1977	62 million	156 million	40 billion
1976	113 million	76 million	36 billion
1975	131 million	69 million	37.2 billion
1974	92 million	12 million	36.6 billion
1973	72 million	–	36.3 billion
1972	6 million	–	34.5 billion
1971	36 million	0	32.9 billion
1970	17 million	–	25.3 billion
1969	26 million	18 million	28.1 billion
1968	–	–	26.1 billion
1967	–	–	25.6 billion
1966	–	–	25.8 billion
1965	–	–	25.8 billion
1964	–	–	26.7 billion
1963	–	–	20.3 billion
1962	4 million	–	17.5 billion
1961	2 million	12 million	16.4 billion
1960	–	2 million	17.6 billion

Each country on its own

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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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