Congo - Kinshasa vs Poland: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 44 million TIV in Congo - Kinshasa and 2.17 billion TIV in Poland, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Poland, by 2.13 billion TIV, or 49 times that in Congo - Kinshasa.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Poland has been higher since 2000, when it overtook Congo - Kinshasa.
In 2025, Congo - Kinshasa ranked 58 and Poland ranked 4 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	Poland	World
2025	44 million	2.17 billion	33.3 billion
2024	40 million	1.54 billion	30.6 billion
2023	27 million	1.39 billion	29.5 billion
2022	–	414 million	33 billion
2021	–	68 million	26.8 billion
2020	9 million	153 million	23.4 billion
2019	–	213 million	26.9 billion
2018	1 million	50 million	27.3 billion
2017	–	126 million	31.2 billion
2016	43 million	45 million	31.4 billion
2015	3 million	127 million	28.7 billion
2014	–	275 million	27 billion
2013	1 million	146 million	27.4 billion
2012	15 million	227 million	27.9 billion
2011	–	141 million	29.9 billion
2010	156 million	174 million	25.8 billion
2009	37 million	193 million	24 billion
2008	18 million	633 million	24.1 billion
2007	–	969 million	26.5 billion
2006	24 million	442 million	24.4 billion
2005	26 million	105 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	223 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	347 million	19.2 billion
2002	18 million	253 million	17.7 billion
2001	11 million	31 million	18.3 billion
2000	89 million	146 million	20.5 billion
1999	46 million	23 million	25.3 billion
1998	10 million	–	27.9 billion
1997	6 million	–	28.9 billion
1996	61 million	101 million	23.7 billion
1995	0	250 million	22.9 billion
1994	–	74 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	4 million	25.8 billion
1992	2 million	100 million	24.3 billion
1991	–	76 million	27.8 billion
1990	4 million	226 million	28.6 billion
1989	–	501 million	31.7 billion
1988	1 million	903 million	32.9 billion
1987	36 million	1.04 billion	36.2 billion
1986	1 million	1.39 billion	35.5 billion
1985	1 million	925 million	33.2 billion
1984	16 million	466 million	36.8 billion
1983	5 million	536 million	39.1 billion
1982	15 million	709 million	41.4 billion
1981	12 million	804 million	42 billion
1980	10 million	1.12 billion	37.4 billion
1979	15 million	1.19 billion	33.3 billion
1978	38 million	1.19 billion	39.2 billion
1977	28 million	1.02 billion	37 billion
1976	134 million	1.1 billion	33 billion
1975	445 million	887 million	34.2 billion
1974	9 million	1.06 billion	32.9 billion
1973	5 million	1.11 billion	32.6 billion
1972	15 million	958 million	28.7 billion
1971	165 million	1.01 billion	29.3 billion
1970	19 million	859 million	22.1 billion
1969	28 million	992 million	24.7 billion
1968	7 million	927 million	22.4 billion
1967	16 million	781 million	22.1 billion
1966	27 million	1 billion	22.4 billion
1965	23 million	1.16 billion	23.1 billion
1964	64 million	1.57 billion	24.2 billion
1963	32 million	1.02 billion	18.1 billion
1962	13 million	685 million	15.5 billion
1961	9 million	864 million	15 billion
1960	2 million	889 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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