Burkina Faso vs Mozambique
Burkina Faso vs Mozambique: Arms imports
Arms imports in 2025: 34 million TIV in Burkina Faso and 14 million TIV in Mozambique, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Burkina Faso, by 20 million TIV, or 2.43 times that in Mozambique.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Burkina Faso has been higher since 2020, when it overtook Mozambique.
- The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Burkina Faso | Mozambique | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 million | 14 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 37 million | 1 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 19 million | 3 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 12 million | 5 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 26 million | 19 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 3 million | 1 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 7 million | 22 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 24 million | 3 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 2 million | – | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 7 million | 46 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 5 million | 5 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | – | 16 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | – | 9 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 3 million | 0 | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 16 million | 0 | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 0 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 3 million | – | 24 billion |
| 2008 | – | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 4 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 4 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 12 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | – | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | 1 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | – | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | – | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | – | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | – | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | – | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 7 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 4 million | – | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | – | – | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | – | – | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 12 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | – | – | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 3 million | 6 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 2 million | 73 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 9 million | 94 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 16 million | 59 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 1 million | 64 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 9 million | 60 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 0 | 52 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | – | 111 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | – | 494 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 9 million | 152 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 8 million | 34 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 14 million | 28 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | – | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | – | – | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 1 million | – | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 1 million | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 1 million | – | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 0 | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | – | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 0 | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 0 | – | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 1 million | – | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | – | – | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | – | – | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 1 million | – | 15 billion |
| 1960 | – | – | 15.7 billion |
Each country on its own
Good to know
- 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Burkina Faso vs Mozambique
Health
- Life expectancyBurkina Faso: 61.1 years in 2023Mozambique: 63.6 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBurkina Faso: 7.5 per 100 live births in 2024Mozambique: 5.9 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBurkina Faso: 52.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023Mozambique: 49.7 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionBurkina Faso: 3.69% in 2017Mozambique: 3.9% in 2017
- Suicide rateBurkina Faso: 13.2 per 100,000 people in 2017Mozambique: 17.2 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBurkina Faso: 23 million people in 2023Mozambique: 33.6 million people in 2023
- Population growthBurkina Faso: 2.26% a year in 2023Mozambique: 2.94% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBurkina Faso: 4.19 births per woman in 2023Mozambique: 4.76 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBurkina Faso: 28.9% in 2025Mozambique: 37.2% in 2025
- Median ageBurkina Faso: 17.3 years in 2023Mozambique: 16.3 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBurkina Faso: 2.6% in 2023Mozambique: 2.8% in 2023
- Net migration rateBurkina Faso: -1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Mozambique: -1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBurkina Faso: 3.3% of GDP in 2025Mozambique: 1.87% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBurkina Faso: $844M in 2025Mozambique: $446M in 2025
- Military spending per personBurkina Faso: $37 in 2025Mozambique: $13 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBurkina Faso: 13.2% of government spending in 2025Mozambique: 6% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBurkina Faso: 11,000 people in 2020Mozambique: 11,000 people in 2020
- National powerBurkina Faso: 0.09% of world capability in 2022Mozambique: 0.13% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBurkina Faso: 0.12% of the labour force in 2020Mozambique: 0.08% of the labour force in 2020