Congo - Kinshasa vs India: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 44 million TIV in Congo - Kinshasa and 2.86 billion TIV in India, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in India, by 2.82 billion TIV, or 65 times that in Congo - Kinshasa.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

India has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1960.
In 2025, Congo - Kinshasa ranked 58 and India ranked 2 of 110 countries, counting from the highest.
The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Congo - Kinshasa	India	World
2025	44 million	2.86 billion	33.3 billion
2024	40 million	1.6 billion	30.6 billion
2023	27 million	1.54 billion	29.5 billion
2022	–	2.7 billion	33 billion
2021	–	3.96 billion	26.8 billion
2020	9 million	2.67 billion	23.4 billion
2019	–	3.2 billion	26.9 billion
2018	1 million	1.98 billion	27.3 billion
2017	–	2.68 billion	31.2 billion
2016	43 million	2.65 billion	31.4 billion
2015	3 million	2.73 billion	28.7 billion
2014	–	3.28 billion	27 billion
2013	1 million	5.3 billion	27.4 billion
2012	15 million	4.51 billion	27.9 billion
2011	–	3.63 billion	29.9 billion
2010	156 million	2.9 billion	25.8 billion
2009	37 million	1.96 billion	24 billion
2008	18 million	1.64 billion	24.1 billion
2007	–	2.3 billion	26.5 billion
2006	24 million	1.49 billion	24.4 billion
2005	26 million	1.2 billion	21.3 billion
2004	–	2.25 billion	21.3 billion
2003	–	2.8 billion	19.2 billion
2002	18 million	1.9 billion	17.7 billion
2001	11 million	1.05 billion	18.3 billion
2000	89 million	988 million	20.5 billion
1999	46 million	1.22 billion	25.3 billion
1998	10 million	797 million	27.9 billion
1997	6 million	1.68 billion	28.9 billion
1996	61 million	831 million	23.7 billion
1995	0	1.36 billion	22.9 billion
1994	–	873 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	737 million	25.8 billion
1992	2 million	1.19 billion	24.3 billion
1991	–	1.88 billion	27.8 billion
1990	4 million	2.83 billion	28.6 billion
1989	–	3.68 billion	31.7 billion
1988	1 million	3.85 billion	32.9 billion
1987	36 million	3.92 billion	36.2 billion
1986	1 million	4.24 billion	35.5 billion
1985	1 million	3 billion	33.2 billion
1984	16 million	2.43 billion	36.8 billion
1983	5 million	2.64 billion	39.1 billion
1982	15 million	2.65 billion	41.4 billion
1981	12 million	2.12 billion	42 billion
1980	10 million	1.77 billion	37.4 billion
1979	15 million	1.2 billion	33.3 billion
1978	38 million	1.2 billion	39.2 billion
1977	28 million	2.38 billion	37 billion
1976	134 million	1.94 billion	33 billion
1975	445 million	1.53 billion	34.2 billion
1974	9 million	1.33 billion	32.9 billion
1973	5 million	1.51 billion	32.6 billion
1972	15 million	2.09 billion	28.7 billion
1971	165 million	2.02 billion	29.3 billion
1970	19 million	963 million	22.1 billion
1969	28 million	1.37 billion	24.7 billion
1968	7 million	1.37 billion	22.4 billion
1967	16 million	1.13 billion	22.1 billion
1966	27 million	961 million	22.4 billion
1965	23 million	1 billion	23.1 billion
1964	64 million	794 million	24.2 billion
1963	32 million	695 million	18.1 billion
1962	13 million	402 million	15.5 billion
1961	9 million	1.15 billion	15 billion
1960	2 million	544 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.

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