Canada vs Vietnam
Canada vs Vietnam: Arms exports
Arms exports: 312 million TIV in Canada in 2025 and 10 million TIV in Vietnam in 2018, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Canada, by 98 million TIV, or 11 times that in Vietnam.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Canada has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1972.
- The world as a whole: 27.4 billion TIV in 2018.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Canada | Vietnam | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 312 million | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 237 million | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 276 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 147 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 144 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 123 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 223 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 108 million | 10 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 63 million | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 96 million | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 298 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 189 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 170 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 258 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 277 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 196 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 198 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 252 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 334 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 254 million | 14 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 234 million | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 289 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 302 million | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 177 million | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 124 million | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 69 million | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 80 million | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 39 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 97 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 168 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 248 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 165 million | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 152 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 147 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 93 million | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 79 million | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 33 million | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 124 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 250 million | 11 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 240 million | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 83 million | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 77 million | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 97 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 237 million | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 105 million | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 116 million | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 163 million | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 177 million | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 138 million | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | 259 million | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 59 million | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 90 million | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | 118 million | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | 323 million | 0 | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 290 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | 198 million | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 183 million | – | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | 198 million | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | 73 million | – | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 112 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | 121 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 273 million | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 245 million | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 188 million | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 300 million | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 66 million | – | 17.6 billion |
Each country on its own
Good to know
- Major weapons the country sent abroad, 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.
- 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
Canada vs Vietnam
Health
- Life expectancyCanada: 82.6 years in 2023Vietnam: 74.6 years in 2023
- Child mortalityCanada: 0.5 per 100 live births in 2024Vietnam: 1.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityCanada: 4.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023Vietnam: 15.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterCanada: 99% in 2022Vietnam: 57.8% in 2022
- DepressionCanada: 3.99% in 2017Vietnam: 2.88% in 2017
- Suicide rateCanada: 10.9 per 100,000 people in 2017Vietnam: 7.4 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationCanada: 39.3 million people in 2023Vietnam: 100 million people in 2023
- Population growthCanada: 1.22% a year in 2023Vietnam: 0.64% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateCanada: 1.35 births per woman in 2023Vietnam: 1.91 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationCanada: 82.9% in 2025Vietnam: 38.8% in 2025
- Median ageCanada: 40.3 years in 2023Vietnam: 32.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overCanada: 19.4% in 2023Vietnam: 8.6% in 2023
- Net migration rateCanada: 11 per 1,000 people in 2023Vietnam: -0.8 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingCanada: 1.63% of GDP in 2025Vietnam: 2.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsCanada: $37.5B in 2025Vietnam: $10.9B in 2025
- Military spending per personCanada: $939 in 2025Vietnam: $104 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingCanada: 3.7% of government spending in 2025Vietnam: 9.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelCanada: 72,000 people in 2020Vietnam: 522,000 people in 2020
- National powerCanada: 0.81% of world capability in 2022Vietnam: 1.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersCanada: 0.35% of the labour force in 2020Vietnam: 0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsCanada: 83 million TIV in 2025Vietnam: 177 million TIV in 2025