Belarus vs Lithuania
Belarus vs Lithuania: Arms exports
Arms exports: 1 million TIV in Belarus in 2025 and 3 million TIV in Lithuania in 2024, by SIPRI estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Belarus, by 62 million TIV, or 22 times that in Lithuania.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Belarus has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2002.
- The world as a whole: 30.7 billion TIV in 2024.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Belarus | Lithuania | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 million | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 65 million | 3 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 45 million | 8 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 58 million | 25 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 111 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 59 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 84 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 86 million | 60 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 52 million | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 152 million | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 142 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 101 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 269 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 97 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 98 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 161 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 41 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 224 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 5 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 43 million | – | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 53 million | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 19 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 58 million | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 64 million | 3 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 49 million | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 293 million | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 454 million | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 63 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 402 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 129 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 7 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 8 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | – | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | – | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | – | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | – | – | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | – | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | – | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | – | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | – | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | – | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | – | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | – | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | – | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | – | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | – | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | – | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | – | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | – | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | – | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | – | – | 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 | – | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | – | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | – | – | 17.6 billion |
Each country on its own
Good to know
- 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Belarus vs Lithuania
Health
- Life expectancyBelarus: 74.4 years in 2023Lithuania: 76 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBelarus: 0.2 per 100 live births in 2024Lithuania: 0.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBelarus: 1.9 per 1,000 live births in 2023Lithuania: 2.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterBelarus: 93.1% in 2022Lithuania: 95% in 2022
- DepressionBelarus: 4.02% in 2017Lithuania: 4.14% in 2017
- Suicide rateBelarus: 19 per 100,000 people in 2017Lithuania: 28 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBelarus: 9.12 million people in 2023Lithuania: 2.85 million people in 2023
- Population growthBelarus: -0.65% a year in 2023Lithuania: 0.89% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBelarus: 1.21 births per woman in 2023Lithuania: 1.2 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBelarus: 79.5% in 2025Lithuania: 69.1% in 2025
- Median ageBelarus: 40.5 years in 2023Lithuania: 42.1 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBelarus: 17.1% in 2023Lithuania: 19.9% in 2023
- Net migration rateBelarus: -0.3 per 1,000 people in 2023Lithuania: 15.7 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBelarus: 2.4% of GDP in 2025Lithuania: 3.08% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBelarus: $1.83B in 2025Lithuania: $2.74B in 2025
- Military spending per personBelarus: $215 in 2025Lithuania: $1,035 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBelarus: 5.7% of government spending in 2025Lithuania: 7.6% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBelarus: 158,000 people in 2020Lithuania: 37,000 people in 2020
- National powerBelarus: 0.14% of world capability in 2022Lithuania: 0.05% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBelarus: 3.17% of the labour force in 2020Lithuania: 2.48% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBelarus: 466 million TIV in 2025Lithuania: 29 million TIV in 2025