Belgium vs South Korea: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 86 million TIV in Belgium and 2.02 billion TIV in South Korea, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in South Korea, by 1.93 billion TIV, or 23 times that in Belgium.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

South Korea has been higher since 2010, when it overtook Belgium.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Belgium	South Korea	World
2025	86 million	2.02 billion	33.5 billion
2024	69 million	1.1 billion	30.7 billion
2023	41 million	675 million	29.5 billion
2022	129 million	231 million	33.3 billion
2021	99 million	536 million	27.1 billion
2020	19 million	829 million	24.1 billion
2019	50 million	675 million	27 billion
2018	21 million	1.05 billion	27.4 billion
2017	17 million	700 million	31.3 billion
2016	7 million	435 million	31.5 billion
2015	12 million	92 million	28.7 billion
2014	10 million	218 million	27.1 billion
2013	54 million	350 million	27.4 billion
2012	21 million	203 million	27.9 billion
2011	110 million	328 million	29.9 billion
2010	11 million	177 million	25.8 billion
2009	242 million	224 million	24.4 billion
2008	223 million	110 million	24.1 billion
2007	32 million	278 million	26.5 billion
2006	59 million	158 million	24.5 billion
2005	160 million	109 million	21.4 billion
2004	47 million	74 million	21.3 billion
2003	15 million	96 million	19.2 billion
2002	32 million	–	17.7 billion
2001	37 million	230 million	18.5 billion
2000	46 million	36 million	20.5 billion
1999	62 million	–	25.4 billion
1998	46 million	32 million	27.9 billion
1997	93 million	25 million	28.9 billion
1996	61 million	24 million	23.7 billion
1995	161 million	30 million	22.9 billion
1994	39 million	7 million	23 billion
1993	–	62 million	25.8 billion
1992	–	–	24.3 billion
1991	1 million	118 million	28.2 billion
1990	1 million	72 million	30.2 billion
1989	36 million	48 million	34.9 billion
1988	18 million	54 million	36.8 billion
1987	–	–	39.4 billion
1986	19 million	73 million	39 billion
1985	4 million	28 million	38.2 billion
1984	115 million	126 million	41.6 billion
1983	89 million	–	43.9 billion
1982	41 million	65 million	46.2 billion
1981	19 million	130 million	45.8 billion
1980	–	105 million	42.2 billion
1979	3 million	105 million	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	–	141 million	34.5 billion
1971	0	–	32.9 billion
1970	–	–	25.3 billion
1969	5 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	–	16.4 billion
1960	3 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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