Austria vs United States
Austria vs United States: Arms imports
Arms imports in 2025: 29 million TIV in Austria and 745 million TIV in United States, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in United States, by 716 million TIV, or 26 times that in Austria.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- United States has been higher since 1971, when it overtook Austria.
- The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Austria | United States | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 million | 745 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 13 million | 1.05 billion | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 17 million | 891 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 5 million | 846 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 34 million | 922 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 14 million | 806 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 18 million | 882 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 6 million | 379 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 10 million | 504 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 13 million | 447 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 1 million | 482 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 2 million | 568 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 5 million | 767 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 6 million | 1.14 billion | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 6 million | 937 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 5 million | 969 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 286 million | 939 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 190 million | 936 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 269 million | 842 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 5 million | 706 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 26 million | 582 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 56 million | 596 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 41 million | 630 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 81 million | 515 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 15 million | 508 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 25 million | 333 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 48 million | 220 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 247 million | 262 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 190 million | 610 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 9 million | 601 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 30 million | 809 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 52 million | 951 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 8 million | 968 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 5 million | 540 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 6 million | 515 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 5 million | 363 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 84 million | 1.78 billion | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 117 million | 1.79 billion | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 7 million | 2 billion | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 19 million | 424 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 28 million | 655 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 13 million | 381 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 145 million | 463 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 97 million | 248 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 73 million | 531 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 177 million | 380 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 72 million | 253 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 8 million | 369 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | – | 384 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 12 million | 499 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 12 million | 388 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 32 million | 586 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 38 million | 656 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 93 million | 769 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 123 million | 578 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 99 million | 38 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 12 million | 50 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 1 million | 62 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 48 million | 88 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 61 million | 89 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 78 million | 170 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 74 million | 358 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 201 million | 283 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 56 million | 236 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 27 million | 198 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 16 million | 181 million | 15.7 billion |
Each country on its own
Good to know
- 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Austria vs United States
Health
- Life expectancyAustria: 82 years in 2023United States: 79.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityAustria: 0.3 per 100 live births in 2024United States: 0.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityAustria: 2.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023United States: 5.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterAustria: 98.9% in 2022United States: 97.5% in 2022
- DepressionAustria: 3.26% in 2017United States: 4.84% in 2017
- Suicide rateAustria: 11.2 per 100,000 people in 2017United States: 12.8 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationAustria: 9.13 million people in 2023United States: 344 million people in 2023
- Population growthAustria: -0.12% a year in 2023United States: 0.58% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateAustria: 1.32 births per woman in 2023United States: 1.62 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationAustria: 69.7% in 2025United States: 80.2% in 2025
- Median ageAustria: 43.1 years in 2023United States: 38 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overAustria: 20.2% in 2023United States: 17.4% in 2023
- Net migration rateAustria: 0.5 per 1,000 people in 2023United States: 3.9 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingAustria: 1.1% of GDP in 2025United States: 3.12% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsAustria: $5.88B in 2025United States: $929B in 2025
- Military spending per personAustria: $697 in 2025United States: $2,755 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingAustria: 2% of government spending in 2025United States: 8.3% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelAustria: 23,000 people in 2020United States: 1.4 million people in 2020
- National powerAustria: 0.17% of world capability in 2022United States: 12.36% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersAustria: 0.5% of the labour force in 2020United States: 0.84% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exportsAustria: 1 million TIV in 2025United States: 14 billion TIV in 2025