Cuba vs Venezuela
Cuba vs Venezuela: Arms exports
Arms exports: 8 million TIV in Cuba in 1980 and 40 million TIV in Venezuela in 2009, by SIPRI estimates. In 1975 the value was higher in Venezuela, by 12 million TIV, or 13 times that in Cuba.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Venezuela has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1975.
- The world as a whole: 37.2 billion TIV in 1975.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Cuba | Venezuela | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | – | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | – | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | – | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | – | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | – | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | – | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | – | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | – | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | – | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | – | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | – | – | 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 | – | 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 | – | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | – | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | – | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | – | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | – | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | – | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | – | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | – | 0 | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | – | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | – | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | – | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | – | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | – | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | – | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 8 million | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 10 million | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 12 million | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | – | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 1 million | 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
Cuba vs Venezuela
Health
- Life expectancyCuba: 78.1 years in 2023Venezuela: 72.5 years in 2023
- Child mortalityCuba: 0.9 per 100 live births in 2024Venezuela: 2.4 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityCuba: 4.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023Venezuela: 15.7 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionCuba: 3.32% in 2017Venezuela: 2.82% in 2017
- Suicide rateCuba: 11.3 per 100,000 people in 2017Venezuela: 8.7 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationCuba: 11 million people in 2023Venezuela: 28.3 million people in 2023
- Population growthCuba: -0.35% a year in 2023Venezuela: 0.35% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateCuba: 1.44 births per woman in 2023Venezuela: 2.08 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationCuba: 77.2% in 2025Venezuela: 89.3% in 2025
- Median ageCuba: 41.7 years in 2023Venezuela: 29 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overCuba: 16.2% in 2023Venezuela: 9.3% in 2023
- Net migration rateCuba: -2.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Venezuela: -4 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingCuba: 2.88% of GDP in 2018Venezuela: 2.23% of GDP in 2017
- Military spending per personCuba: $11 in 2018Venezuela: $69 in 2017
- Armed forces personnelCuba: 76,000 people in 2020Venezuela: 343,000 people in 2020
- National powerCuba: 0.11% of world capability in 2022Venezuela: 0.34% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersCuba: 1.54% of the labour force in 2020Venezuela: 3.47% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsCuba: 8 million TIV in 2004Venezuela: 98 million TIV in 2023