Brazil vs South Korea: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 153 million TIV in Brazil and 2.02 billion TIV in South Korea, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in South Korea, by 1.87 billion TIV, or 13 times that in Brazil.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

South Korea has been higher since 1998, when it overtook Brazil.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Brazil	South Korea	World
2025	153 million	2.02 billion	33.5 billion
2024	112 million	1.1 billion	30.7 billion
2023	54 million	675 million	29.5 billion
2022	10 million	231 million	33.3 billion
2021	86 million	536 million	27.1 billion
2020	164 million	829 million	24.1 billion
2019	21 million	675 million	27 billion
2018	102 million	1.05 billion	27.4 billion
2017	36 million	700 million	31.3 billion
2016	134 million	435 million	31.5 billion
2015	53 million	92 million	28.7 billion
2014	31 million	218 million	27.1 billion
2013	31 million	350 million	27.4 billion
2012	33 million	203 million	27.9 billion
2011	32 million	328 million	29.9 billion
2010	147 million	177 million	25.8 billion
2009	44 million	224 million	24.4 billion
2008	93 million	110 million	24.1 billion
2007	54 million	278 million	26.5 billion
2006	44 million	158 million	24.5 billion
2005	1 million	109 million	21.4 billion
2004	46 million	74 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	96 million	19.2 billion
2002	21 million	–	17.7 billion
2001	–	230 million	18.5 billion
2000	–	36 million	20.5 billion
1999	–	–	25.4 billion
1998	18 million	32 million	27.9 billion
1997	27 million	25 million	28.9 billion
1996	27 million	24 million	23.7 billion
1995	38 million	30 million	22.9 billion
1994	54 million	7 million	23 billion
1993	40 million	62 million	25.8 billion
1992	99 million	–	24.3 billion
1991	129 million	118 million	28.2 billion
1990	108 million	72 million	30.2 billion
1989	53 million	48 million	34.9 billion
1988	208 million	54 million	36.8 billion
1987	216 million	–	39.4 billion
1986	140 million	73 million	39 billion
1985	209 million	28 million	38.2 billion
1984	280 million	126 million	41.6 billion
1983	204 million	–	43.9 billion
1982	128 million	65 million	46.2 billion
1981	71 million	130 million	45.8 billion
1980	160 million	105 million	42.2 billion
1979	80 million	105 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	–	141 million	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

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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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