Chile vs Venezuela
Chile vs Venezuela: Arms exports
Arms exports: 8 million TIV in Chile in 2022 and 40 million TIV in Venezuela in 2009, by SIPRI estimates. In 2008 the value was higher in Chile, by 97 million TIV, or 33 times that in Venezuela.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Chile has been higher since 1987, when it overtook Venezuela.
- The world as a whole: 24.1 billion TIV in 2008.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Chile | Venezuela | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | – | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | – | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 8 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | – | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | – | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | – | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 0 | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | – | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | – | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | – | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 20 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | – | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | – | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | – | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | – | 40 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 100 million | 3 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | – | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | – | 7 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | – | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | – | 1 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 1 million | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 1 million | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 1 million | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 2 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | – | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 8 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 3 million | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | – | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 4 million | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 4 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 3 million | 0 | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 3 million | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | – | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | – | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 0 | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | – | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 0 | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 0 | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | – | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 0 | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | – | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 0 | 13 million | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | – | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | – | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | – | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | – | 16 million | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | – | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | – | – | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | – | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | – | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | – | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | – | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | – | – | 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
Chile vs Venezuela
Health
- Life expectancyChile: 81.2 years in 2023Venezuela: 72.5 years in 2023
- Child mortalityChile: 0.7 per 100 live births in 2024Venezuela: 2.4 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityChile: 4.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Venezuela: 15.7 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionChile: 4.06% in 2017Venezuela: 2.82% in 2017
- Suicide rateChile: 10.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Venezuela: 8.7 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationChile: 19.7 million people in 2023Venezuela: 28.3 million people in 2023
- Population growthChile: 0.57% a year in 2023Venezuela: 0.35% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateChile: 1.17 births per woman in 2023Venezuela: 2.08 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationChile: 89.2% in 2025Venezuela: 89.3% in 2025
- Median ageChile: 36 years in 2023Venezuela: 29 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overChile: 13.7% in 2023Venezuela: 9.3% in 2023
- Net migration rateChile: 3.2 per 1,000 people in 2023Venezuela: -4 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingChile: 1.52% of GDP in 2025Venezuela: 2.23% of GDP in 2017
- Military spending per personChile: $269 in 2025Venezuela: $69 in 2017
- Armed forces personnelChile: 114,000 people in 2020Venezuela: 343,000 people in 2020
- National powerChile: 0.23% of world capability in 2022Venezuela: 0.34% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersChile: 1.28% of the labour force in 2020Venezuela: 3.47% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsChile: 14 million TIV in 2025Venezuela: 98 million TIV in 2023