Brazil vs Ethiopia
Brazil vs Ethiopia: Arms exports
Arms exports: 153 million TIV in Brazil in 2025 and 17 million TIV in Ethiopia in 1997, by SIPRI estimates. In 1997 the value was higher in Brazil, by 10 million TIV, or 1.59 times that in Ethiopia.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Brazil has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1985.
- The world as a whole: 28.9 billion TIV in 1997.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Brazil | Ethiopia | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 153 million | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 112 million | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 54 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 10 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 86 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 164 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 21 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 102 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 36 million | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 134 million | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 53 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 31 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 31 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 33 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 32 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 147 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 44 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 93 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 54 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 44 million | – | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 1 million | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 46 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 21 million | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | – | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 18 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 27 million | 17 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 27 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 38 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 54 million | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 40 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 99 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 129 million | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 108 million | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 53 million | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 208 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 216 million | 51 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 140 million | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 209 million | 35 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 280 million | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 204 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 128 million | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 71 million | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 160 million | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 80 million | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 204 million | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 156 million | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | 76 million | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 69 million | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 12 million | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 0 | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | – | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 18 million | – | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | – | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | – | – | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | – | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | – | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | – | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 12 million | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 2 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
Brazil vs Ethiopia
Health
- Life expectancyBrazil: 75.9 years in 2023Ethiopia: 67.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBrazil: 1.4 per 100 live births in 2024Ethiopia: 4.5 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBrazil: 12.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Ethiopia: 33 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterBrazil: 87.3% in 2022Ethiopia: 13.2% in 2022
- DepressionBrazil: 3.3% in 2017Ethiopia: 3.82% in 2017
- Suicide rateBrazil: 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Ethiopia: 9.6 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBrazil: 211 million people in 2023Ethiopia: 129 million people in 2023
- Population growthBrazil: 0.41% a year in 2023Ethiopia: 2.59% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBrazil: 1.62 births per woman in 2023Ethiopia: 3.99 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBrazil: 88.2% in 2025Ethiopia: 24.1% in 2025
- Median ageBrazil: 33.9 years in 2023Ethiopia: 18.7 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBrazil: 10.6% in 2023Ethiopia: 3.2% in 2023
- Net migration rateBrazil: -1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Ethiopia: -0.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBrazil: 1.05% of GDP in 2025Ethiopia: 0.49% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBrazil: $23.6B in 2025Ethiopia: $785M in 2025
- Military spending per personBrazil: $113 in 2025Ethiopia: $4 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBrazil: 2.2% of government spending in 2025Ethiopia: 4.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBrazil: 762,000 people in 2020Ethiopia: 138,000 people in 2020
- National powerBrazil: 2.01% of world capability in 2022Ethiopia: 0.85% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBrazil: 0.76% of the labour force in 2020Ethiopia: 0.28% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBrazil: 462 million TIV in 2025Ethiopia: 63 million TIV in 2025