Cameroon vs Congo - Kinshasa: Arms imports

Arms imports: 2 million TIV in Cameroon in 2023 and 44 million TIV in Congo - Kinshasa in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Congo - Kinshasa, by 25 million TIV, or 14 times that in Cameroon.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Congo - Kinshasa has been higher since 2020, when it overtook Cameroon.
The world as a whole: 29.5 billion TIV in 2023.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Cameroon	Congo - Kinshasa	World
2025	–	44 million	33.3 billion
2024	–	40 million	30.6 billion
2023	2 million	27 million	29.5 billion
2022	2 million	–	33 billion
2021	4 million	–	26.8 billion
2020	2 million	9 million	23.4 billion
2019	4 million	–	26.9 billion
2018	2 million	1 million	27.3 billion
2017	8 million	–	31.2 billion
2016	23 million	43 million	31.4 billion
2015	10 million	3 million	28.7 billion
2014	124 million	–	27 billion
2013	139 million	1 million	27.4 billion
2012	9 million	15 million	27.9 billion
2011	–	–	29.9 billion
2010	10 million	156 million	25.8 billion
2009	–	37 million	24 billion
2008	1 million	18 million	24.1 billion
2007	–	–	26.5 billion
2006	3 million	24 million	24.4 billion
2005	5 million	26 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	–	21.3 billion
2003	–	–	19.2 billion
2002	10 million	18 million	17.7 billion
2001	6 million	11 million	18.3 billion
2000	–	89 million	20.5 billion
1999	4 million	46 million	25.3 billion
1998	9 million	10 million	27.9 billion
1997	6 million	6 million	28.9 billion
1996	5 million	61 million	23.7 billion
1995	–	0	22.9 billion
1994	–	–	22.8 billion
1993	–	–	25.8 billion
1992	3 million	2 million	24.3 billion
1991	–	–	27.8 billion
1990	8 million	4 million	28.6 billion
1989	3 million	–	31.7 billion
1988	2 million	1 million	32.9 billion
1987	5 million	36 million	36.2 billion
1986	11 million	1 million	35.5 billion
1985	16 million	1 million	33.2 billion
1984	125 million	16 million	36.8 billion
1983	5 million	5 million	39.1 billion
1982	113 million	15 million	41.4 billion
1981	28 million	12 million	42 billion
1980	–	10 million	37.4 billion
1979	1 million	15 million	33.3 billion
1978	–	38 million	39.2 billion
1977	73 million	28 million	37 billion
1976	29 million	134 million	33 billion
1975	–	445 million	34.2 billion
1974	–	9 million	32.9 billion
1973	15 million	5 million	32.6 billion
1972	1 million	15 million	28.7 billion
1971	8 million	165 million	29.3 billion
1970	–	19 million	22.1 billion
1969	–	28 million	24.7 billion
1968	3 million	7 million	22.4 billion
1967	3 million	16 million	22.1 billion
1966	2 million	27 million	22.4 billion
1965	2 million	23 million	23.1 billion
1964	0	64 million	24.2 billion
1963	2 million	32 million	18.1 billion
1962	–	13 million	15.5 billion
1961	0	9 million	15 billion
1960	–	2 million	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.

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Deaths in conflictsCameroon: 660 deaths in 2022Congo - Kinshasa: 5,228 deaths in 2022