Brazil vs United Kingdom: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 153 million TIV in Brazil and 702 million TIV in United Kingdom, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in United Kingdom, by 549 million TIV, or 4.59 times that in Brazil.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

United Kingdom 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	United Kingdom	World
2025	153 million	702 million	33.5 billion
2024	112 million	884 million	30.7 billion
2023	54 million	1.32 billion	29.5 billion
2022	10 million	1.74 billion	33.3 billion
2021	86 million	639 million	27.1 billion
2020	164 million	652 million	24.1 billion
2019	21 million	886 million	27 billion
2018	102 million	682 million	27.4 billion
2017	36 million	1.1 billion	31.3 billion
2016	134 million	1.34 billion	31.5 billion
2015	53 million	1.18 billion	28.7 billion
2014	31 million	1.66 billion	27.1 billion
2013	31 million	1.51 billion	27.4 billion
2012	33 million	813 million	27.9 billion
2011	32 million	1 billion	29.9 billion
2010	147 million	1.15 billion	25.8 billion
2009	44 million	1.07 billion	24.4 billion
2008	93 million	931 million	24.1 billion
2007	54 million	924 million	26.5 billion
2006	44 million	957 million	24.5 billion
2005	1 million	990 million	21.4 billion
2004	46 million	1.23 billion	21.3 billion
2003	–	769 million	19.2 billion
2002	21 million	1.08 billion	17.7 billion
2001	–	1.35 billion	18.5 billion
2000	–	1.62 billion	20.5 billion
1999	–	1.32 billion	25.4 billion
1998	18 million	1.4 billion	27.9 billion
1997	27 million	2.36 billion	28.9 billion
1996	27 million	1.62 billion	23.7 billion
1995	38 million	1.46 billion	22.9 billion
1994	54 million	1.53 billion	23 billion
1993	40 million	1.38 billion	25.8 billion
1992	99 million	1.09 billion	24.3 billion
1991	129 million	1.53 billion	28.2 billion
1990	108 million	1.84 billion	30.2 billion
1989	53 million	3.5 billion	34.9 billion
1988	208 million	2.53 billion	36.8 billion
1987	216 million	3.6 billion	39.4 billion
1986	140 million	1.99 billion	39 billion
1985	209 million	2.14 billion	38.2 billion
1984	280 million	2.53 billion	41.6 billion
1983	204 million	2.54 billion	43.9 billion
1982	128 million	2.52 billion	46.2 billion
1981	71 million	2.36 billion	45.8 billion
1980	160 million	1.57 billion	42.2 billion
1979	80 million	1.54 billion	38.4 billion
1978	204 million	2.21 billion	42.4 billion
1977	156 million	2.2 billion	40 billion
1976	76 million	2.52 billion	36 billion
1975	69 million	2.23 billion	37.2 billion
1974	12 million	2.25 billion	36.6 billion
1973	–	2.79 billion	36.3 billion
1972	–	2.68 billion	34.5 billion
1971	0	2.35 billion	32.9 billion
1970	–	982 million	25.3 billion
1969	18 million	1.62 billion	28.1 billion
1968	–	1.68 billion	26.1 billion
1967	–	1.88 billion	25.6 billion
1966	–	1.42 billion	25.8 billion
1965	–	1.5 billion	25.8 billion
1964	–	1.41 billion	26.7 billion
1963	–	1.24 billion	20.3 billion
1962	–	1.07 billion	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	1.4 billion	16.4 billion
1960	2 million	2.19 billion	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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