Belgium vs United States: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 86 million TIV in Belgium and 14 billion TIV in United States, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in United States, by 13.9 billion TIV, or 160 times that in Belgium.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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United States has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1960.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Belgium	United States	World
2025	86 million	14 billion	33.5 billion
2024	69 million	13.7 billion	30.7 billion
2023	41 million	10.9 billion	29.5 billion
2022	129 million	14.5 billion	33.3 billion
2021	99 million	11.6 billion	27.1 billion
2020	19 million	9.73 billion	24.1 billion
2019	50 million	10.5 billion	27 billion
2018	21 million	9.26 billion	27.4 billion
2017	17 million	11.4 billion	31.3 billion
2016	7 million	9.89 billion	31.5 billion
2015	12 million	10.3 billion	28.7 billion
2014	10 million	9.46 billion	27.1 billion
2013	54 million	7.77 billion	27.4 billion
2012	21 million	8.97 billion	27.9 billion
2011	110 million	9.04 billion	29.9 billion
2010	11 million	8.35 billion	25.8 billion
2009	242 million	7.15 billion	24.4 billion
2008	223 million	7.09 billion	24.1 billion
2007	32 million	7.87 billion	26.5 billion
2006	59 million	7.5 billion	24.5 billion
2005	160 million	6.72 billion	21.4 billion
2004	47 million	6.87 billion	21.3 billion
2003	15 million	5.68 billion	19.2 billion
2002	32 million	4.87 billion	17.7 billion
2001	37 million	5.59 billion	18.5 billion
2000	46 million	7.68 billion	20.5 billion
1999	62 million	11.6 billion	25.4 billion
1998	46 million	15.8 billion	27.9 billion
1997	93 million	14.5 billion	28.9 billion
1996	61 million	10.8 billion	23.7 billion
1995	161 million	11.2 billion	22.9 billion
1994	39 million	11.5 billion	23 billion
1993	–	13.8 billion	25.8 billion
1992	–	14.1 billion	24.3 billion
1991	1 million	12.6 billion	28.2 billion
1990	1 million	10.7 billion	30.2 billion
1989	36 million	11.4 billion	34.9 billion
1988	18 million	12 billion	36.8 billion
1987	–	12.2 billion	39.4 billion
1986	19 million	11.6 billion	39 billion
1985	4 million	10.8 billion	38.2 billion
1984	115 million	11.9 billion	41.6 billion
1983	89 million	13.8 billion	43.9 billion
1982	41 million	14 billion	46.2 billion
1981	19 million	13.7 billion	45.8 billion
1980	–	10.7 billion	42.2 billion
1979	3 million	9.79 billion	38.4 billion
1978	–	13.5 billion	42.4 billion
1977	–	14.3 billion	40 billion
1976	–	15.7 billion	36 billion
1975	–	15.3 billion	37.2 billion
1974	–	12.7 billion	36.6 billion
1973	–	12 billion	36.3 billion
1972	–	10.7 billion	34.5 billion
1971	0	11.6 billion	32.9 billion
1970	–	8.35 billion	25.3 billion
1969	5 million	11.6 billion	28.1 billion
1968	–	8.62 billion	26.1 billion
1967	–	7.44 billion	25.6 billion
1966	12 million	8.94 billion	25.8 billion
1965	–	12 billion	25.8 billion
1964	0	12.5 billion	26.7 billion
1963	0	9.43 billion	20.3 billion
1962	2 million	6.13 billion	17.5 billion
1961	0	6.29 billion	16.4 billion
1960	3 million	6.13 billion	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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