Brazil vs Venezuela: Arms imports

Arms imports: 462 million TIV in Brazil in 2025 and 98 million TIV in Venezuela in 2023, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Brazil, by 95 million TIV, or 1.97 times that in Venezuela.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Brazil has been higher since 2014, when it overtook Venezuela.
The world as a whole: 29.5 billion TIV in 2023.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Brazil	Venezuela	World
2025	462 million	–	33.3 billion
2024	450 million	–	30.6 billion
2023	193 million	98 million	29.5 billion
2022	469 million	–	33 billion
2021	240 million	–	26.8 billion
2020	134 million	79 million	23.4 billion
2019	125 million	–	26.9 billion
2018	258 million	14 million	27.3 billion
2017	96 million	–	31.2 billion
2016	111 million	95 million	31.4 billion
2015	202 million	138 million	28.7 billion
2014	201 million	186 million	27 billion
2013	217 million	1.01 billion	27.4 billion
2012	317 million	692 million	27.9 billion
2011	231 million	600 million	29.9 billion
2010	256 million	211 million	25.8 billion
2009	135 million	366 million	24 billion
2008	178 million	741 million	24.1 billion
2007	188 million	770 million	26.5 billion
2006	178 million	380 million	24.4 billion
2005	223 million	21 million	21.3 billion
2004	85 million	9 million	21.3 billion
2003	110 million	15 million	19.2 billion
2002	221 million	44 million	17.7 billion
2001	573 million	106 million	18.3 billion
2000	86 million	108 million	20.5 billion
1999	308 million	85 million	25.3 billion
1998	200 million	8 million	27.9 billion
1997	476 million	39 million	28.9 billion
1996	547 million	37 million	23.7 billion
1995	267 million	5 million	22.9 billion
1994	311 million	1 million	22.8 billion
1993	66 million	37 million	25.8 billion
1992	98 million	72 million	24.3 billion
1991	161 million	318 million	27.8 billion
1990	140 million	189 million	28.6 billion
1989	742 million	120 million	31.7 billion
1988	125 million	105 million	32.9 billion
1987	234 million	73 million	36.2 billion
1986	139 million	92 million	35.5 billion
1985	82 million	517 million	33.2 billion
1984	123 million	234 million	36.8 billion
1983	88 million	241 million	39.1 billion
1982	72 million	698 million	41.4 billion
1981	61 million	908 million	42 billion
1980	338 million	361 million	37.4 billion
1979	375 million	14 million	33.3 billion
1978	832 million	59 million	39.2 billion
1977	525 million	216 million	37 billion
1976	551 million	170 million	33 billion
1975	538 million	230 million	34.2 billion
1974	256 million	252 million	32.9 billion
1973	598 million	395 million	32.6 billion
1972	520 million	165 million	28.7 billion
1971	171 million	130 million	29.3 billion
1970	217 million	15 million	22.1 billion
1969	108 million	8 million	24.7 billion
1968	236 million	20 million	22.4 billion
1967	218 million	205 million	22.1 billion
1966	57 million	69 million	22.4 billion
1965	149 million	–	23.1 billion
1964	25 million	6 million	24.2 billion
1963	127 million	34 million	18.1 billion
1962	62 million	32 million	15.5 billion
1961	212 million	32 million	15 billion
1960	236 million	64 million	15.7 billion

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Major weapons the country received, 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.
Ranks count the 110 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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