Chad vs Libya
Chad vs Libya: Arms imports
Arms imports: 4 million TIV in Chad in 2025 and 5 million TIV in Libya in 2024, by SIPRI estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Chad, by 5 million TIV, or 2 times that in Libya.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Chad has been higher since 2024, when it overtook Libya.
- The world as a whole: 30.6 billion TIV in 2024.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Chad | Libya | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 10 million | 5 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 32 million | 34 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 6 million | – | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 47 million | – | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 4 million | 0 | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 1 million | 34 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 7 million | – | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 6 million | – | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 2 million | 2 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 1 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 58 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 59 million | 119 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 4 million | 75 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 1 million | 8 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 43 million | 37 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 37 million | 22 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 83 million | 16 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 30 million | 16 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 18 million | 16 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | – | 1 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | – | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 16 million | – | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | – | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 7 million | 6 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 7 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 1 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 3 million | – | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | – | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | – | 11 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 56 million | 218 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 9 million | 9 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 28 million | 184 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 29 million | 401 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 1 million | 746 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 9 million | 730 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 37 million | 1.42 billion | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | – | 2.75 billion | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | – | 3.16 billion | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 10 million | 2.95 billion | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | – | 3.07 billion | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | – | 4.22 billion | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 3 million | 3.05 billion | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 8 million | 1.85 billion | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 10 million | 1.65 billion | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 13 million | 1.77 billion | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 3 million | 733 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | – | 534 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 4 million | 540 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | – | 371 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | – | 152 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | – | 57 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | – | 12 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | – | 26 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 0 | 9 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | – | 15 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | – | 3 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | – | 2 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 1 million | 17 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 1 million | 14 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Chad vs Libya
Health
- Life expectancyChad: 55.1 years in 2023Libya: 69.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityChad: 9.7 per 100 live births in 2024Libya: 1 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityChad: 64.2 per 1,000 live births in 2023Libya: 16 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionChad: 3.88% in 2017Libya: 3.81% in 2017
- Suicide rateChad: 11 per 100,000 people in 2017Libya: 8.1 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationChad: 19.3 million people in 2023Libya: 7.31 million people in 2023
- Population growthChad: 5.71% a year in 2023Libya: 1.01% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateChad: 6.12 births per woman in 2023Libya: 2.36 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationChad: 27.6% in 2025Libya: 87.9% in 2025
- Median ageChad: 15.4 years in 2023Libya: 27.2 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overChad: 2.1% in 2023Libya: 4.9% in 2023
- Net migration rateChad: 25.7 per 1,000 people in 2023Libya: -0.3 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingChad: 3.19% of GDP in 2025Libya: 3.57% of GDP in 2023
- Military spending in US dollarsChad: $598M in 2025Libya: $1.6B in 2023
- Military spending per personChad: $31 in 2025Libya: $216 in 2023
- Military share of state spendingChad: 15.5% of government spending in 2025Libya: 5.5% of government spending in 2023
- Armed forces personnelChad: 45,000 people in 2020Libya: 0 people in 2020
- National powerChad: 0.1% of world capability in 2022Libya: 0.08% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersChad: 0.85% of the labour force in 2020Libya: 0% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exportsChad: 20 million TIV in 1987Libya: 0 TIV in 2016