Australia vs Switzerland: Arms imports

Arms imports: 826 million TIV in Australia in 2025 and 33 million TIV in Switzerland in 2023, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Australia, by 343 million TIV, or 11 times that in Switzerland.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Australia has been higher since 1998, when it overtook Switzerland.
The world as a whole: 29.5 billion TIV in 2023.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Australia	Switzerland	World
2025	826 million	–	33.3 billion
2024	1.08 billion	–	30.6 billion
2023	376 million	33 million	29.5 billion
2022	809 million	15 million	33 billion
2021	1.22 billion	–	26.8 billion
2020	1.63 billion	–	23.4 billion
2019	1.16 billion	–	26.9 billion
2018	1.55 billion	–	27.3 billion
2017	1.66 billion	–	31.2 billion
2016	1.01 billion	70 million	31.4 billion
2015	1.45 billion	10 million	28.7 billion
2014	848 million	5 million	27 billion
2013	220 million	–	27.4 billion
2012	787 million	2 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.58 billion	24 million	29.9 billion
2010	1.56 billion	38 million	25.8 billion
2009	805 million	36 million	24 billion
2008	430 million	15 million	24.1 billion
2007	618 million	108 million	26.5 billion
2006	721 million	83 million	24.4 billion
2005	458 million	168 million	21.3 billion
2004	447 million	203 million	21.3 billion
2003	765 million	117 million	19.2 billion
2002	638 million	58 million	17.7 billion
2001	1.22 billion	60 million	18.3 billion
2000	326 million	15 million	20.5 billion
1999	678 million	499 million	25.3 billion
1998	542 million	428 million	27.9 billion
1997	35 million	375 million	28.9 billion
1996	597 million	187 million	23.7 billion
1995	64 million	93 million	22.9 billion
1994	262 million	114 million	22.8 billion
1993	448 million	98 million	25.8 billion
1992	364 million	381 million	24.3 billion
1991	219 million	469 million	27.8 billion
1990	356 million	433 million	28.6 billion
1989	695 million	318 million	31.7 billion
1988	745 million	179 million	32.9 billion
1987	594 million	151 million	36.2 billion
1986	815 million	108 million	35.5 billion
1985	510 million	341 million	33.2 billion
1984	635 million	404 million	36.8 billion
1983	637 million	442 million	39.1 billion
1982	134 million	175 million	41.4 billion
1981	449 million	289 million	42 billion
1980	409 million	272 million	37.4 billion
1979	197 million	226 million	33.3 billion
1978	1.03 billion	217 million	39.2 billion
1977	278 million	4 million	37 billion
1976	91 million	142 million	33 billion
1975	108 million	136 million	34.2 billion
1974	898 million	64 million	32.9 billion
1973	713 million	123 million	32.6 billion
1972	63 million	192 million	28.7 billion
1971	310 million	153 million	29.3 billion
1970	230 million	142 million	22.1 billion
1969	702 million	166 million	24.7 billion
1968	557 million	199 million	22.4 billion
1967	770 million	177 million	22.1 billion
1966	707 million	373 million	22.4 billion
1965	920 million	228 million	23.1 billion
1964	539 million	263 million	24.2 billion
1963	369 million	52 million	18.1 billion
1962	460 million	4 million	15.5 billion
1961	155 million	37 million	15 billion
1960	116 million	218 million	15.7 billion

Each country on its own

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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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