Belgium vs Luxembourg
Belgium vs Luxembourg: Arms imports
Arms imports in 2025: 430 million TIV in Belgium and 11 million TIV in Luxembourg, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Belgium, by 419 million TIV, or 39 times that in Luxembourg.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Belgium has been higher since 1999.
- The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Belgium | Luxembourg | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 430 million | 11 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 508 million | 3 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 12 million | 1 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 170 million | – | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 255 million | – | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 90 million | 88 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 9 million | 3 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 1 million | – | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 7 million | – | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 4 million | – | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 52 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 99 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 48 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 33 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 27 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 40 million | 8 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 87 million | 8 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 191 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 171 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 15 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 3 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 15 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 21 million | 1 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 48 million | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 30 million | – | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 36 million | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 58 million | 1 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 55 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 50 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 3 million | 3 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 16 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 47 million | – | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 73 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 48 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 125 million | – | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 314 million | – | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 203 million | – | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 407 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 91 million | – | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 91 million | – | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 287 million | – | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 575 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 580 million | – | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 433 million | 1 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 515 million | – | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 565 million | – | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 779 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 409 million | – | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 187 million | – | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 184 million | – | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 130 million | – | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 113 million | 1 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 562 million | – | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 492 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 499 million | – | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 514 million | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 240 million | – | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 220 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 39 million | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 116 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 521 million | – | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 652 million | – | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 575 million | – | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 188 million | – | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 132 million | – | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 92 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
Belgium vs Luxembourg
Health
- Life expectancyBelgium: 82.1 years in 2023Luxembourg: 82.2 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBelgium: 0.4 per 100 live births in 2024Luxembourg: 0.2 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBelgium: 3.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023Luxembourg: 4.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterBelgium: 99.7% in 2022Luxembourg: 99.5% in 2022
- DepressionBelgium: 4.11% in 2017Luxembourg: 3.62% in 2017
- Suicide rateBelgium: 14.3 per 100,000 people in 2017Luxembourg: 8.7 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBelgium: 11.7 million people in 2023Luxembourg: 665,100 people in 2023
- Population growthBelgium: 0.25% a year in 2023Luxembourg: 1.24% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBelgium: 1.38 births per woman in 2023Luxembourg: 1.4 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBelgium: 87.7% in 2025Luxembourg: 94.9% in 2025
- Median ageBelgium: 41.4 years in 2023Luxembourg: 38.9 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBelgium: 20.2% in 2023Luxembourg: 15.1% in 2023
- Net migration rateBelgium: 3.6 per 1,000 people in 2023Luxembourg: 8.9 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBelgium: 2.01% of GDP in 2025Luxembourg: 0.85% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBelgium: $13.6B in 2025Luxembourg: $803M in 2025
- Military spending per personBelgium: $1,237 in 2025Luxembourg: $1,264 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBelgium: 3.7% of government spending in 2025Luxembourg: 1.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBelgium: 24,000 people in 2020Luxembourg: 1,000 people in 2020
- National powerBelgium: 0.22% of world capability in 2022Luxembourg: 0.02% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBelgium: 0.47% of the labour force in 2020Luxembourg: 0.31% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exportsBelgium: 86 million TIV in 2025Luxembourg: 0 TIV in 2007