Belgium vs Brazil: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 86 million TIV in Belgium and 153 million TIV in Brazil, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Brazil, by 67 million TIV, or 1.78 times that in Belgium.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Brazil has been higher since 2023, when it overtook Belgium.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Belgium	Brazil	World
2025	86 million	153 million	33.5 billion
2024	69 million	112 million	30.7 billion
2023	41 million	54 million	29.5 billion
2022	129 million	10 million	33.3 billion
2021	99 million	86 million	27.1 billion
2020	19 million	164 million	24.1 billion
2019	50 million	21 million	27 billion
2018	21 million	102 million	27.4 billion
2017	17 million	36 million	31.3 billion
2016	7 million	134 million	31.5 billion
2015	12 million	53 million	28.7 billion
2014	10 million	31 million	27.1 billion
2013	54 million	31 million	27.4 billion
2012	21 million	33 million	27.9 billion
2011	110 million	32 million	29.9 billion
2010	11 million	147 million	25.8 billion
2009	242 million	44 million	24.4 billion
2008	223 million	93 million	24.1 billion
2007	32 million	54 million	26.5 billion
2006	59 million	44 million	24.5 billion
2005	160 million	1 million	21.4 billion
2004	47 million	46 million	21.3 billion
2003	15 million	–	19.2 billion
2002	32 million	21 million	17.7 billion
2001	37 million	–	18.5 billion
2000	46 million	–	20.5 billion
1999	62 million	–	25.4 billion
1998	46 million	18 million	27.9 billion
1997	93 million	27 million	28.9 billion
1996	61 million	27 million	23.7 billion
1995	161 million	38 million	22.9 billion
1994	39 million	54 million	23 billion
1993	–	40 million	25.8 billion
1992	–	99 million	24.3 billion
1991	1 million	129 million	28.2 billion
1990	1 million	108 million	30.2 billion
1989	36 million	53 million	34.9 billion
1988	18 million	208 million	36.8 billion
1987	–	216 million	39.4 billion
1986	19 million	140 million	39 billion
1985	4 million	209 million	38.2 billion
1984	115 million	280 million	41.6 billion
1983	89 million	204 million	43.9 billion
1982	41 million	128 million	46.2 billion
1981	19 million	71 million	45.8 billion
1980	–	160 million	42.2 billion
1979	3 million	80 million	38.4 billion
1978	–	204 million	42.4 billion
1977	–	156 million	40 billion
1976	–	76 million	36 billion
1975	–	69 million	37.2 billion
1974	–	12 million	36.6 billion
1973	–	–	36.3 billion
1972	–	–	34.5 billion
1971	0	0	32.9 billion
1970	–	–	25.3 billion
1969	5 million	18 million	28.1 billion
1968	–	–	26.1 billion
1967	–	–	25.6 billion
1966	12 million	–	25.8 billion
1965	–	–	25.8 billion
1964	0	–	26.7 billion
1963	0	–	20.3 billion
1962	2 million	–	17.5 billion
1961	0	12 million	16.4 billion
1960	3 million	2 million	17.6 billion

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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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