Brazil vs Spain
Brazil vs Spain: Arms exports
Arms exports in 2025: 153 million TIV in Brazil and 341 million TIV in Spain, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Spain, by 188 million TIV, or 2.23 times that in Brazil.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Spain has been higher since 2004, when it overtook Brazil.
- The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Brazil | Spain | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 153 million | 341 million | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 112 million | 606 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 54 million | 912 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 10 million | 1.01 billion | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 86 million | 676 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 164 million | 1.01 billion | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 21 million | 318 million | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 102 million | 705 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 36 million | 820 million | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 134 million | 481 million | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 53 million | 982 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 31 million | 962 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 31 million | 450 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 33 million | 266 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 32 million | 997 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 147 million | 273 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 44 million | 984 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 93 million | 626 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 54 million | 628 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 44 million | 898 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 1 million | 113 million | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 46 million | 54 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | 99 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 21 million | 18 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | 8 million | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | – | 47 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | 46 million | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 18 million | 174 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 27 million | 605 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 27 million | 112 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 38 million | 88 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 54 million | 253 million | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 40 million | 103 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 99 million | 70 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 129 million | 103 million | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 108 million | 116 million | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 53 million | 167 million | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 208 million | 136 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 216 million | 152 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 140 million | 197 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 209 million | 92 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 280 million | 244 million | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 204 million | 367 million | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 128 million | 263 million | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 71 million | 135 million | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 160 million | 10 million | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 80 million | 18 million | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 204 million | 38 million | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 156 million | 25 million | 40 billion |
| 1976 | 76 million | 46 million | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 69 million | 272 million | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 12 million | 82 million | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | 18 million | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | 18 million | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 0 | 140 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | – | 70 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 18 million | 10 million | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | – | 12 million | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | – | 12 million | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | – | 26 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | 33 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | – | 12 million | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | – | 10 million | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | – | 10 million | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 12 million | 8 million | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 2 million | 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 Spain
Health
- Life expectancyBrazil: 75.9 years in 2023Spain: 83.7 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBrazil: 1.4 per 100 live births in 2024Spain: 0.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBrazil: 12.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Spain: 2.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterBrazil: 87.3% in 2022Spain: 99.6% in 2022
- DepressionBrazil: 3.3% in 2017Spain: 3.54% in 2017
- Suicide rateBrazil: 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Spain: 5.5 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBrazil: 211 million people in 2023Spain: 47.9 million people in 2023
- Population growthBrazil: 0.41% a year in 2023Spain: 0.02% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBrazil: 1.62 births per woman in 2023Spain: 1.21 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBrazil: 88.2% in 2025Spain: 80.5% in 2025
- Median ageBrazil: 33.9 years in 2023Spain: 44.9 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBrazil: 10.6% in 2023Spain: 20.7% in 2023
- Net migration rateBrazil: -1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Spain: 2.5 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBrazil: 1.05% of GDP in 2025Spain: 2.13% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBrazil: $23.6B in 2025Spain: $37.7B in 2025
- Military spending per personBrazil: $113 in 2025Spain: $839 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBrazil: 2.2% of government spending in 2025Spain: 4.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBrazil: 762,000 people in 2020Spain: 199,000 people in 2020
- National powerBrazil: 2.01% of world capability in 2022Spain: 0.66% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBrazil: 0.76% of the labour force in 2020Spain: 0.87% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBrazil: 462 million TIV in 2025Spain: 237 million TIV in 2025