Cuba vs Ecuador
Cuba vs Ecuador: Arms imports
Arms imports: 8 million TIV in Cuba in 2004 and 30 million TIV in Ecuador in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 1991 the value was higher in Cuba, by 23 million TIV, or 1.17 times that in Ecuador.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Cuba has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1960.
- The world as a whole: 27.8 billion TIV in 1991.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Cuba | Ecuador | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 30 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | – | 19 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | – | 7 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | – | 9 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | – | 16 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | – | 21 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | – | 3 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | – | 5 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | – | 20 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | – | 26 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | – | 27 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | – | 56 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | – | 12 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | – | 89 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | – | 70 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | – | 90 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | – | 77 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | – | 102 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | – | 2 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | – | 47 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | – | 39 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 8 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | 1 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | 41 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | – | 9 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | 27 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | – | 31 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | 103 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | 29 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | – | 39 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | 17 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | – | 18 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | 4 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 159 million | 136 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 169 million | 3 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 94 million | 20 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 167 million | 26 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 75 million | 26 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 281 million | 30 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 352 million | 23 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 426 million | 322 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 778 million | 360 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 960 million | 291 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 960 million | 122 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 349 million | 289 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 410 million | 110 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 503 million | 224 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 609 million | 582 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 316 million | 226 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 200 million | 42 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 408 million | 22 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 420 million | 15 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 452 million | 41 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 162 million | 85 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 155 million | 5 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 155 million | 1 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 155 million | 5 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 163 million | 21 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 232 million | 9 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 135 million | 29 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 252 million | 3 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 288 million | 3 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 1.34 billion | – | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 524 million | – | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 153 million | 66 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
Cuba vs Ecuador
Health
- Life expectancyCuba: 78.1 years in 2023Ecuador: 77.4 years in 2023
- Child mortalityCuba: 0.9 per 100 live births in 2024Ecuador: 1.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityCuba: 4.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023Ecuador: 9.6 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionCuba: 3.32% in 2017Ecuador: 2.98% in 2017
- Suicide rateCuba: 11.3 per 100,000 people in 2017Ecuador: 9.2 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationCuba: 11 million people in 2023Ecuador: 18 million people in 2023
- Population growthCuba: -0.35% a year in 2023Ecuador: 0.87% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateCuba: 1.44 births per woman in 2023Ecuador: 1.82 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationCuba: 77.2% in 2025Ecuador: 63.4% in 2025
- Median ageCuba: 41.7 years in 2023Ecuador: 28.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overCuba: 16.2% in 2023Ecuador: 8.1% in 2023
- Net migration rateCuba: -2.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Ecuador: -1.2 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingCuba: 2.88% of GDP in 2018Ecuador: 2.1% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per personCuba: $11 in 2018Ecuador: $150 in 2025
- Armed forces personnelCuba: 76,000 people in 2020Ecuador: 42,000 people in 2020
- National powerCuba: 0.11% of world capability in 2022Ecuador: 0.15% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersCuba: 1.54% of the labour force in 2020Ecuador: 0.54% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exportsCuba: 8 million TIV in 1980Ecuador: 2 million TIV in 2018