Cameroon vs Ethiopia: Arms imports

Arms imports: 2 million TIV in Cameroon in 2023 and 63 million TIV in Ethiopia in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 both had 2 million TIV.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

The world as a whole: 29.5 billion TIV in 2023.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Cameroon	Ethiopia	World
2025	–	63 million	33.3 billion
2024	–	48 million	30.6 billion
2023	2 million	2 million	29.5 billion
2022	2 million	45 million	33 billion
2021	4 million	16 million	26.8 billion
2020	2 million	25 million	23.4 billion
2019	4 million	76 million	26.9 billion
2018	2 million	14 million	27.3 billion
2017	8 million	51 million	31.2 billion
2016	23 million	55 million	31.4 billion
2015	10 million	10 million	28.7 billion
2014	124 million	33 million	27 billion
2013	139 million	154 million	27.4 billion
2012	9 million	193 million	27.9 billion
2011	–	76 million	29.9 billion
2010	10 million	58 million	25.8 billion
2009	–	–	24 billion
2008	1 million	–	24.1 billion
2007	–	–	26.5 billion
2006	3 million	–	24.4 billion
2005	5 million	–	21.3 billion
2004	–	239 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	174 million	19.2 billion
2002	10 million	20 million	17.7 billion
2001	6 million	–	18.3 billion
2000	–	114 million	20.5 billion
1999	4 million	152 million	25.3 billion
1998	9 million	208 million	27.9 billion
1997	6 million	69 million	28.9 billion
1996	5 million	–	23.7 billion
1995	–	–	22.9 billion
1994	–	–	22.8 billion
1993	–	–	25.8 billion
1992	3 million	–	24.3 billion
1991	–	80 million	27.8 billion
1990	8 million	2 million	28.6 billion
1989	3 million	47 million	31.7 billion
1988	2 million	155 million	32.9 billion
1987	5 million	239 million	36.2 billion
1986	11 million	348 million	35.5 billion
1985	16 million	268 million	33.2 billion
1984	125 million	228 million	36.8 billion
1983	5 million	403 million	39.1 billion
1982	113 million	516 million	41.4 billion
1981	28 million	328 million	42 billion
1980	–	330 million	37.4 billion
1979	1 million	113 million	33.3 billion
1978	–	965 million	39.2 billion
1977	73 million	1.13 billion	37 billion
1976	29 million	113 million	33 billion
1975	–	58 million	34.2 billion
1974	–	36 million	32.9 billion
1973	15 million	5 million	32.6 billion
1972	1 million	53 million	28.7 billion
1971	8 million	54 million	29.3 billion
1970	–	90 million	22.1 billion
1969	–	24 million	24.7 billion
1968	3 million	34 million	22.4 billion
1967	3 million	31 million	22.1 billion
1966	2 million	99 million	22.4 billion
1965	2 million	14 million	23.1 billion
1964	0	4 million	24.2 billion
1963	2 million	27 million	18.1 billion
1962	–	21 million	15.5 billion
1961	0	4 million	15 billion
1960	–	24 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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