Cambodia vs Thailand: Arms imports

Arms imports: 56 million TIV in Cambodia in 2023 and 33 million TIV in Thailand in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Thailand, by 234 million TIV, or 5.18 times that in Cambodia.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Thailand has been higher since 2009, when it overtook Cambodia.
The world as a whole: 29.5 billion TIV in 2023.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Cambodia	Thailand	World
2025	–	33 million	33.3 billion
2024	–	73 million	30.6 billion
2023	56 million	290 million	29.5 billion
2022	38 million	271 million	33 billion
2021	35 million	151 million	26.8 billion
2020	–	141 million	23.4 billion
2019	1 million	293 million	26.9 billion
2018	5 million	636 million	27.3 billion
2017	–	317 million	31.2 billion
2016	–	346 million	31.4 billion
2015	–	184 million	28.7 billion
2014	–	107 million	27 billion
2013	68 million	383 million	27.4 billion
2012	78 million	278 million	27.9 billion
2011	–	252 million	29.9 billion
2010	34 million	60 million	25.8 billion
2009	4 million	63 million	24 billion
2008	–	16 million	24.1 billion
2007	56 million	8 million	26.5 billion
2006	14 million	99 million	24.4 billion
2005	–	115 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	138 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	131 million	19.2 billion
2002	–	152 million	17.7 billion
2001	–	109 million	18.3 billion
2000	–	77 million	20.5 billion
1999	–	160 million	25.3 billion
1998	–	62 million	27.9 billion
1997	22 million	910 million	28.9 billion
1996	27 million	741 million	23.7 billion
1995	1 million	530 million	22.9 billion
1994	74 million	608 million	22.8 billion
1993	3 million	182 million	25.8 billion
1992	–	429 million	24.3 billion
1991	–	575 million	27.8 billion
1990	48 million	235 million	28.6 billion
1989	124 million	284 million	31.7 billion
1988	10 million	623 million	32.9 billion
1987	50 million	539 million	36.2 billion
1986	136 million	162 million	35.5 billion
1985	69 million	185 million	33.2 billion
1984	67 million	360 million	36.8 billion
1983	13 million	247 million	39.1 billion
1982	–	81 million	41.4 billion
1981	–	350 million	42 billion
1980	34 million	318 million	37.4 billion
1979	–	326 million	33.3 billion
1978	43 million	192 million	39.2 billion
1977	–	111 million	37 billion
1976	–	154 million	33 billion
1975	–	90 million	34.2 billion
1974	25 million	114 million	32.9 billion
1973	114 million	321 million	32.6 billion
1972	104 million	147 million	28.7 billion
1971	22 million	243 million	29.3 billion
1970	8 million	258 million	22.1 billion
1969	18 million	121 million	24.7 billion
1968	15 million	88 million	22.4 billion
1967	20 million	140 million	22.1 billion
1966	37 million	58 million	22.4 billion
1965	43 million	87 million	23.1 billion
1964	41 million	84 million	24.2 billion
1963	11 million	111 million	18.1 billion
1962	5 million	113 million	15.5 billion
1961	2 million	52 million	15 billion
1960	1 million	28 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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