Chad vs Mali
Chad vs Mali: Arms imports
Arms imports in 2025: 4 million TIV in Chad and 64 million TIV in Mali, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Mali, by 60 million TIV, or 16 times that in Chad.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Mali has been higher since 2022, when it overtook Chad.
- The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Chad | Mali | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 million | 64 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 10 million | 25 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 32 million | 82 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 6 million | 62 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 47 million | 39 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 4 million | 49 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 1 million | 20 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 7 million | 27 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 6 million | 32 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 2 million | 22 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 1 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 58 million | 1 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 59 million | 7 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 4 million | 9 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 1 million | 0 | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 43 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 37 million | 10 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 83 million | 3 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 30 million | 8 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 18 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | – | 13 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | – | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | 3 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | 1 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 16 million | – | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | – | 7 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 7 million | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 7 million | 4 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | 9 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 1 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 3 million | 0 | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | – | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | – | 1 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 56 million | – | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 9 million | 2 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 28 million | – | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 29 million | – | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 1 million | 0 | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 9 million | 13 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 37 million | 15 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | – | 4 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | – | 91 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 10 million | – | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | – | – | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | – | – | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 3 million | – | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 8 million | 89 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 10 million | 11 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 13 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 3 million | – | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 4 million | 15 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | – | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | – | 2 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | – | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | – | 12 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | – | 1 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 0 | – | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | – | – | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | – | 4 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | – | 10 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 1 million | 3 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 1 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 Mali
Health
- Life expectancyChad: 55.1 years in 2023Mali: 60.4 years in 2023
- Child mortalityChad: 9.7 per 100 live births in 2024Mali: 7.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityChad: 64.2 per 1,000 live births in 2023Mali: 60.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionChad: 3.88% in 2017Mali: 3.01% in 2017
- Suicide rateChad: 11 per 100,000 people in 2017Mali: 6.8 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationChad: 19.3 million people in 2023Mali: 23.8 million people in 2023
- Population growthChad: 5.71% a year in 2023Mali: 2.97% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateChad: 6.12 births per woman in 2023Mali: 5.61 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationChad: 27.6% in 2025Mali: 32.2% in 2025
- Median ageChad: 15.4 years in 2023Mali: 15.5 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overChad: 2.1% in 2023Mali: 2.4% in 2023
- Net migration rateChad: 25.7 per 1,000 people in 2023Mali: -1.7 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingChad: 3.19% of GDP in 2025Mali: 3.87% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsChad: $598M in 2025Mali: $883M in 2025
- Military spending per personChad: $31 in 2025Mali: $38 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingChad: 15.5% of government spending in 2025Mali: 14.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelChad: 45,000 people in 2020Mali: 41,000 people in 2020
- National powerChad: 0.1% of world capability in 2022Mali: 0.1% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersChad: 0.85% of the labour force in 2020Mali: 0.54% of the labour force in 2020