Brazil vs China: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 153 million TIV in Brazil and 880 million TIV in China, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in China, by 727 million TIV, or 5.75 times that in Brazil.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

China 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	Brazil	China	World
2025	153 million	880 million	33.5 billion
2024	112 million	1.29 billion	30.7 billion
2023	54 million	2.75 billion	29.5 billion
2022	10 million	2.32 billion	33.3 billion
2021	86 million	1.34 billion	27.1 billion
2020	164 million	645 million	24.1 billion
2019	21 million	1.6 billion	27 billion
2018	102 million	1.39 billion	27.4 billion
2017	36 million	1.64 billion	31.3 billion
2016	134 million	2.48 billion	31.5 billion
2015	53 million	1.84 billion	28.7 billion
2014	31 million	1.35 billion	27.1 billion
2013	31 million	2.1 billion	27.4 billion
2012	33 million	1.5 billion	27.9 billion
2011	32 million	1.31 billion	29.9 billion
2010	147 million	1.53 billion	25.8 billion
2009	44 million	1.14 billion	24.4 billion
2008	93 million	598 million	24.1 billion
2007	54 million	520 million	26.5 billion
2006	44 million	769 million	24.5 billion
2005	1 million	341 million	21.4 billion
2004	46 million	408 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	701 million	19.2 billion
2002	21 million	524 million	17.7 billion
2001	–	510 million	18.5 billion
2000	–	309 million	20.5 billion
1999	–	334 million	25.4 billion
1998	18 million	349 million	27.9 billion
1997	27 million	427 million	28.9 billion
1996	27 million	764 million	23.7 billion
1995	38 million	981 million	22.9 billion
1994	54 million	1.06 billion	23 billion
1993	40 million	1.44 billion	25.8 billion
1992	99 million	672 million	24.3 billion
1991	129 million	1.32 billion	28.2 billion
1990	108 million	955 million	30.2 billion
1989	53 million	1.06 billion	34.9 billion
1988	208 million	1.43 billion	36.8 billion
1987	216 million	2.6 billion	39.4 billion
1986	140 million	1.86 billion	39 billion
1985	209 million	1.29 billion	38.2 billion
1984	280 million	1.94 billion	41.6 billion
1983	204 million	1.76 billion	43.9 billion
1982	128 million	1.56 billion	46.2 billion
1981	71 million	707 million	45.8 billion
1980	160 million	943 million	42.2 billion
1979	80 million	553 million	38.4 billion
1978	204 million	611 million	42.4 billion
1977	156 million	224 million	40 billion
1976	76 million	580 million	36 billion
1975	69 million	661 million	37.2 billion
1974	12 million	508 million	36.6 billion
1973	–	658 million	36.3 billion
1972	–	1.25 billion	34.5 billion
1971	0	1.31 billion	32.9 billion
1970	–	905 million	25.3 billion
1969	18 million	669 million	28.1 billion
1968	–	746 million	26.1 billion
1967	–	426 million	25.6 billion
1966	–	628 million	25.8 billion
1965	–	387 million	25.8 billion
1964	–	75 million	26.7 billion
1963	–	12 million	20.3 billion
1962	–	47 million	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	35 million	16.4 billion
1960	2 million	285 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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