Belgium vs Vietnam
Belgium vs Vietnam: Arms exports
Arms exports: 86 million TIV in Belgium in 2025 and 10 million TIV in Vietnam in 2018, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Belgium, by 11 million TIV, or 2.1 times that in Vietnam.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Belgium has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2006.
- The world as a whole: 27.4 billion TIV in 2018.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Belgium | Vietnam | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 million | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 69 million | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 41 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 129 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 99 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 19 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 50 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 21 million | 10 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 17 million | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 7 million | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 12 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 10 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 54 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 21 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 110 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 11 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 242 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 223 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 32 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 59 million | 14 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 160 million | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 47 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 15 million | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 32 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 | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 93 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 61 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 161 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 39 million | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 1 million | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 1 million | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 36 million | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 18 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | – | 11 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 19 million | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 4 million | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 115 million | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 89 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 41 million | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 19 million | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | – | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 3 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 | – | 0 | 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 |
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
Belgium vs Vietnam
Health
- Life expectancyBelgium: 82.1 years in 2023Vietnam: 74.6 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBelgium: 0.4 per 100 live births in 2024Vietnam: 1.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBelgium: 3.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023Vietnam: 15.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterBelgium: 99.7% in 2022Vietnam: 57.8% in 2022
- DepressionBelgium: 4.11% in 2017Vietnam: 2.88% in 2017
- Suicide rateBelgium: 14.3 per 100,000 people in 2017Vietnam: 7.4 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBelgium: 11.7 million people in 2023Vietnam: 100 million people in 2023
- Population growthBelgium: 0.25% a year in 2023Vietnam: 0.64% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBelgium: 1.38 births per woman in 2023Vietnam: 1.91 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBelgium: 87.7% in 2025Vietnam: 38.8% in 2025
- Median ageBelgium: 41.4 years in 2023Vietnam: 32.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBelgium: 20.2% in 2023Vietnam: 8.6% in 2023
- Net migration rateBelgium: 3.6 per 1,000 people in 2023Vietnam: -0.8 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBelgium: 2.01% of GDP in 2025Vietnam: 2.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBelgium: $13.6B in 2025Vietnam: $10.9B in 2025
- Military spending per personBelgium: $1,237 in 2025Vietnam: $104 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBelgium: 3.7% of government spending in 2025Vietnam: 9.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBelgium: 24,000 people in 2020Vietnam: 522,000 people in 2020
- National powerBelgium: 0.22% of world capability in 2022Vietnam: 1.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBelgium: 0.47% of the labour force in 2020Vietnam: 0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBelgium: 430 million TIV in 2025Vietnam: 177 million TIV in 2025