Austria vs Japan: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 29 million TIV in Austria and 1.72 billion TIV in Japan, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Japan, by 1.69 billion TIV, or 59 times that in Austria.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Japan has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1960.
The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Austria	Japan	World
2025	29 million	1.72 billion	33.3 billion
2024	13 million	1.04 billion	30.6 billion
2023	17 million	852 million	29.5 billion
2022	5 million	1.47 billion	33 billion
2021	34 million	1.01 billion	26.8 billion
2020	14 million	929 million	23.4 billion
2019	18 million	992 million	26.9 billion
2018	6 million	764 million	27.3 billion
2017	10 million	446 million	31.2 billion
2016	13 million	332 million	31.4 billion
2015	1 million	343 million	28.7 billion
2014	2 million	316 million	27 billion
2013	5 million	341 million	27.4 billion
2012	6 million	239 million	27.9 billion
2011	6 million	300 million	29.9 billion
2010	5 million	658 million	25.8 billion
2009	286 million	990 million	24 billion
2008	190 million	990 million	24.1 billion
2007	269 million	553 million	26.5 billion
2006	5 million	469 million	24.4 billion
2005	26 million	375 million	21.3 billion
2004	56 million	399 million	21.3 billion
2003	41 million	458 million	19.2 billion
2002	81 million	442 million	17.7 billion
2001	15 million	427 million	18.3 billion
2000	25 million	497 million	20.5 billion
1999	48 million	1.26 billion	25.3 billion
1998	247 million	1.49 billion	27.9 billion
1997	190 million	843 million	28.9 billion
1996	9 million	876 million	23.7 billion
1995	30 million	1.26 billion	22.9 billion
1994	52 million	1.02 billion	22.8 billion
1993	8 million	2.13 billion	25.8 billion
1992	5 million	2.52 billion	24.3 billion
1991	6 million	2.94 billion	27.8 billion
1990	5 million	2.68 billion	28.6 billion
1989	84 million	2.28 billion	31.7 billion
1988	117 million	2 billion	32.9 billion
1987	7 million	1.94 billion	36.2 billion
1986	19 million	1.89 billion	35.5 billion
1985	28 million	1.97 billion	33.2 billion
1984	13 million	2.05 billion	36.8 billion
1983	145 million	1.69 billion	39.1 billion
1982	97 million	1.44 billion	41.4 billion
1981	73 million	1.31 billion	42 billion
1980	177 million	1.03 billion	37.4 billion
1979	72 million	920 million	33.3 billion
1978	8 million	901 million	39.2 billion
1977	–	788 million	37 billion
1976	12 million	1.48 billion	33 billion
1975	12 million	1.6 billion	34.2 billion
1974	32 million	733 million	32.9 billion
1973	38 million	468 million	32.6 billion
1972	93 million	493 million	28.7 billion
1971	123 million	605 million	29.3 billion
1970	99 million	502 million	22.1 billion
1969	12 million	488 million	24.7 billion
1968	1 million	557 million	22.4 billion
1967	48 million	610 million	22.1 billion
1966	61 million	324 million	22.4 billion
1965	78 million	1.16 billion	23.1 billion
1964	74 million	1.72 billion	24.2 billion
1963	201 million	239 million	18.1 billion
1962	56 million	263 million	15.5 billion
1961	27 million	335 million	15 billion
1960	16 million	790 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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