Brazil vs United States: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 153 million TIV in Brazil and 14 billion TIV in United States, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in United States, by 13.8 billion TIV, or 91 times that in Brazil.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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United States 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 States	World
2025	153 million	14 billion	33.5 billion
2024	112 million	13.7 billion	30.7 billion
2023	54 million	10.9 billion	29.5 billion
2022	10 million	14.5 billion	33.3 billion
2021	86 million	11.6 billion	27.1 billion
2020	164 million	9.73 billion	24.1 billion
2019	21 million	10.5 billion	27 billion
2018	102 million	9.26 billion	27.4 billion
2017	36 million	11.4 billion	31.3 billion
2016	134 million	9.89 billion	31.5 billion
2015	53 million	10.3 billion	28.7 billion
2014	31 million	9.46 billion	27.1 billion
2013	31 million	7.77 billion	27.4 billion
2012	33 million	8.97 billion	27.9 billion
2011	32 million	9.04 billion	29.9 billion
2010	147 million	8.35 billion	25.8 billion
2009	44 million	7.15 billion	24.4 billion
2008	93 million	7.09 billion	24.1 billion
2007	54 million	7.87 billion	26.5 billion
2006	44 million	7.5 billion	24.5 billion
2005	1 million	6.72 billion	21.4 billion
2004	46 million	6.87 billion	21.3 billion
2003	–	5.68 billion	19.2 billion
2002	21 million	4.87 billion	17.7 billion
2001	–	5.59 billion	18.5 billion
2000	–	7.68 billion	20.5 billion
1999	–	11.6 billion	25.4 billion
1998	18 million	15.8 billion	27.9 billion
1997	27 million	14.5 billion	28.9 billion
1996	27 million	10.8 billion	23.7 billion
1995	38 million	11.2 billion	22.9 billion
1994	54 million	11.5 billion	23 billion
1993	40 million	13.8 billion	25.8 billion
1992	99 million	14.1 billion	24.3 billion
1991	129 million	12.6 billion	28.2 billion
1990	108 million	10.7 billion	30.2 billion
1989	53 million	11.4 billion	34.9 billion
1988	208 million	12 billion	36.8 billion
1987	216 million	12.2 billion	39.4 billion
1986	140 million	11.6 billion	39 billion
1985	209 million	10.8 billion	38.2 billion
1984	280 million	11.9 billion	41.6 billion
1983	204 million	13.8 billion	43.9 billion
1982	128 million	14 billion	46.2 billion
1981	71 million	13.7 billion	45.8 billion
1980	160 million	10.7 billion	42.2 billion
1979	80 million	9.79 billion	38.4 billion
1978	204 million	13.5 billion	42.4 billion
1977	156 million	14.3 billion	40 billion
1976	76 million	15.7 billion	36 billion
1975	69 million	15.3 billion	37.2 billion
1974	12 million	12.7 billion	36.6 billion
1973	–	12 billion	36.3 billion
1972	–	10.7 billion	34.5 billion
1971	0	11.6 billion	32.9 billion
1970	–	8.35 billion	25.3 billion
1969	18 million	11.6 billion	28.1 billion
1968	–	8.62 billion	26.1 billion
1967	–	7.44 billion	25.6 billion
1966	–	8.94 billion	25.8 billion
1965	–	12 billion	25.8 billion
1964	–	12.5 billion	26.7 billion
1963	–	9.43 billion	20.3 billion
1962	–	6.13 billion	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	6.29 billion	16.4 billion
1960	2 million	6.13 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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