Benin vs Chad
Benin vs Chad: Arms imports
Arms imports in 2025: 4 million TIV in Benin and 4 million TIV in Chad, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 both had 4 million TIV.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Benin | Chad | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 million | 4 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 7 million | 10 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 12 million | 32 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 3 million | 6 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | – | 47 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 1 million | 4 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | – | 1 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | – | 7 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | – | 6 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 1 million | 2 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | – | 1 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | – | 58 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 3 million | 59 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 20 million | 4 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 0 | 43 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 1 million | 37 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | – | 83 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 3 million | 30 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | – | 18 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | – | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | – | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 7 million | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | 16 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | – | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | 7 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | – | 7 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | – | 1 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | 3 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | – | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | – | – | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 0 | 56 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 0 | 9 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 1 million | 28 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | – | 29 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 3 million | 1 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 1 million | 9 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 3 million | 37 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 10 million | – | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | – | – | 42 billion |
| 1980 | – | 10 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 6 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 26 million | – | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | – | 3 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | – | 8 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | – | 10 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | – | 13 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 1 million | 3 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 2 million | 4 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 0 | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | – | – | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | – | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | – | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 1 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | – | 0 | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 2 million | – | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | – | – | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 1 million | – | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 2 million | 1 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | – | 1 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
Benin vs Chad
Health
- Life expectancyBenin: 60.8 years in 2023Chad: 55.1 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBenin: 7.5 per 100 live births in 2024Chad: 9.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBenin: 52.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023Chad: 64.2 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionBenin: 3.63% in 2017Chad: 3.88% in 2017
- Suicide rateBenin: 11.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Chad: 11 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBenin: 14.1 million people in 2023Chad: 19.3 million people in 2023
- Population growthBenin: 2.51% a year in 2023Chad: 5.71% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBenin: 4.56 births per woman in 2023Chad: 6.12 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBenin: 53.4% in 2025Chad: 27.6% in 2025
- Median ageBenin: 17.8 years in 2023Chad: 15.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBenin: 3.1% in 2023Chad: 2.1% in 2023
- Net migration rateBenin: -0 per 1,000 people in 2023Chad: 25.7 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBenin: 0.89% of GDP in 2025Chad: 3.19% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBenin: $204M in 2025Chad: $598M in 2025
- Military spending per personBenin: $15 in 2025Chad: $31 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBenin: 4.8% of government spending in 2025Chad: 15.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBenin: 12,000 people in 2020Chad: 45,000 people in 2020
- National powerBenin: 0.07% of world capability in 2022Chad: 0.1% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBenin: 0.21% of the labour force in 2020Chad: 0.85% of the labour force in 2020