Chile vs Cuba
Chile vs Cuba: Arms imports
Arms imports: 14 million TIV in Chile in 2025 and 8 million TIV in Cuba in 2004, by SIPRI estimates. In 2004 the value was higher in Chile, by 56 million TIV, or 8 times that in Cuba.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Chile has been higher since 2004, when it overtook Cuba.
- The world as a whole: 21.3 billion TIV in 2004.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Chile | Cuba | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 14 million | – | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 9 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 207 million | – | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 66 million | – | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 304 million | – | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 16 million | – | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 74 million | – | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 49 million | – | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 70 million | – | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 135 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 135 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 55 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 61 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 326 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 474 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 329 million | – | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 395 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 659 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 1.1 billion | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 446 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 64 million | 8 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 188 million | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 75 million | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 60 million | – | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 230 million | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 206 million | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 80 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 280 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 163 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 330 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 81 million | – | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 84 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 179 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 102 million | 159 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 132 million | 169 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 133 million | 94 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 84 million | 167 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 155 million | 75 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 173 million | 281 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 28 million | 352 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 513 million | 426 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 135 million | 778 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 339 million | 960 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 147 million | 960 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 150 million | 349 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 147 million | 410 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 192 million | 503 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 72 million | 609 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 387 million | 316 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 196 million | 200 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 272 million | 408 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 278 million | 420 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 51 million | 452 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 185 million | 162 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 77 million | 155 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 13 million | 155 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 62 million | 155 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 150 million | 163 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 74 million | 232 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 49 million | 135 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 38 million | 252 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 123 million | 288 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 19 million | 1.34 billion | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 38 million | 524 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 308 million | 153 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
Chile vs Cuba
Health
- Life expectancyChile: 81.2 years in 2023Cuba: 78.1 years in 2023
- Child mortalityChile: 0.7 per 100 live births in 2024Cuba: 0.9 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityChile: 4.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Cuba: 4.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionChile: 4.06% in 2017Cuba: 3.32% in 2017
- Suicide rateChile: 10.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Cuba: 11.3 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationChile: 19.7 million people in 2023Cuba: 11 million people in 2023
- Population growthChile: 0.57% a year in 2023Cuba: -0.35% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateChile: 1.17 births per woman in 2023Cuba: 1.44 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationChile: 89.2% in 2025Cuba: 77.2% in 2025
- Median ageChile: 36 years in 2023Cuba: 41.7 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overChile: 13.7% in 2023Cuba: 16.2% in 2023
- Net migration rateChile: 3.2 per 1,000 people in 2023Cuba: -2.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingChile: 1.52% of GDP in 2025Cuba: 2.88% of GDP in 2018
- Military spending per personChile: $269 in 2025Cuba: $11 in 2018
- Armed forces personnelChile: 114,000 people in 2020Cuba: 76,000 people in 2020
- National powerChile: 0.23% of world capability in 2022Cuba: 0.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersChile: 1.28% of the labour force in 2020Cuba: 1.54% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exportsChile: 8 million TIV in 2022Cuba: 8 million TIV in 1980