China vs Mongolia: Arms imports

Arms imports: 207 million TIV in China in 2025 and 3 million TIV in Mongolia in 2022, by SIPRI estimates. In 2022 the value was higher in China, by 643 million TIV, or 220 times that in Mongolia.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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China has been higher since 1987, when it overtook Mongolia.
The world as a whole: 33 billion TIV in 2022.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	China	Mongolia	World
2025	207 million	–	33.3 billion
2024	71 million	–	30.6 billion
2023	428 million	–	29.5 billion
2022	646 million	3 million	33 billion
2021	685 million	25 million	26.8 billion
2020	775 million	–	23.4 billion
2019	1.57 billion	17 million	26.9 billion
2018	2.25 billion	–	27.3 billion
2017	1.55 billion	–	31.2 billion
2016	1.21 billion	–	31.4 billion
2015	1.19 billion	73 million	28.7 billion
2014	1.03 billion	–	27 billion
2013	1.22 billion	–	27.4 billion
2012	1.54 billion	78 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.03 billion	3 million	29.9 billion
2010	940 million	64 million	25.8 billion
2009	1.38 billion	–	24 billion
2008	1.78 billion	15 million	24.1 billion
2007	1.7 billion	–	26.5 billion
2006	2.83 billion	–	24.4 billion
2005	3.47 billion	–	21.3 billion
2004	3.24 billion	–	21.3 billion
2003	2.33 billion	–	19.2 billion
2002	2.83 billion	–	17.7 billion
2001	2.76 billion	–	18.3 billion
2000	2.47 billion	–	20.5 billion
1999	1.72 billion	–	25.3 billion
1998	375 million	–	27.9 billion
1997	940 million	–	28.9 billion
1996	1.5 billion	–	23.7 billion
1995	701 million	–	22.9 billion
1994	304 million	–	22.8 billion
1993	1.23 billion	–	25.8 billion
1992	1.18 billion	–	24.3 billion
1991	439 million	–	27.8 billion
1990	267 million	–	28.6 billion
1989	163 million	–	31.7 billion
1988	97 million	27 million	32.9 billion
1987	47 million	36 million	36.2 billion
1986	11 million	27 million	35.5 billion
1985	104 million	98 million	33.2 billion
1984	62 million	114 million	36.8 billion
1983	16 million	118 million	39.1 billion
1982	5 million	156 million	41.4 billion
1981	–	72 million	42 billion
1980	4 million	60 million	37.4 billion
1979	8 million	29 million	33.3 billion
1978	83 million	47 million	39.2 billion
1977	72 million	30 million	37 billion
1976	1 million	31 million	33 billion
1975	1 million	195 million	34.2 billion
1974	1 million	76 million	32.9 billion
1973	1 million	58 million	32.6 billion
1972	1 million	8 million	28.7 billion
1971	1 million	13 million	29.3 billion
1970	1 million	15 million	22.1 billion
1969	–	22 million	24.7 billion
1968	180 million	15 million	22.4 billion
1967	144 million	63 million	22.1 billion
1966	225 million	116 million	22.4 billion
1965	257 million	137 million	23.1 billion
1964	485 million	120 million	24.2 billion
1963	450 million	86 million	18.1 billion
1962	415 million	90 million	15.5 billion
1961	952 million	66 million	15 billion
1960	2.36 billion	10 million	15.7 billion

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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.

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