Congo - Kinshasa vs Singapore: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 44 million TIV in Congo - Kinshasa and 57 million TIV in Singapore, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Singapore, by 13 million TIV, or 1.3 times that in Congo - Kinshasa.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Singapore has been higher since 1976, when it overtook Congo - Kinshasa.
The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Congo - Kinshasa	Singapore	World
2025	44 million	57 million	33.3 billion
2024	40 million	378 million	30.6 billion
2023	27 million	495 million	29.5 billion
2022	–	516 million	33 billion
2021	–	226 million	26.8 billion
2020	9 million	176 million	23.4 billion
2019	–	487 million	26.9 billion
2018	1 million	562 million	27.3 billion
2017	–	408 million	31.2 billion
2016	43 million	642 million	31.4 billion
2015	3 million	152 million	28.7 billion
2014	–	66 million	27 billion
2013	1 million	753 million	27.4 billion
2012	15 million	746 million	27.9 billion
2011	–	879 million	29.9 billion
2010	156 million	937 million	25.8 billion
2009	37 million	1.4 billion	24 billion
2008	18 million	1.11 billion	24.1 billion
2007	–	396 million	26.5 billion
2006	24 million	74 million	24.4 billion
2005	26 million	538 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	374 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	79 million	19.2 billion
2002	18 million	229 million	17.7 billion
2001	11 million	246 million	18.3 billion
2000	89 million	782 million	20.5 billion
1999	46 million	302 million	25.3 billion
1998	10 million	798 million	27.9 billion
1997	6 million	613 million	28.9 billion
1996	61 million	159 million	23.7 billion
1995	0	302 million	22.9 billion
1994	–	179 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	170 million	25.8 billion
1992	2 million	115 million	24.3 billion
1991	–	373 million	27.8 billion
1990	4 million	513 million	28.6 billion
1989	–	231 million	31.7 billion
1988	1 million	541 million	32.9 billion
1987	36 million	302 million	36.2 billion
1986	1 million	84 million	35.5 billion
1985	1 million	123 million	33.2 billion
1984	16 million	83 million	36.8 billion
1983	5 million	242 million	39.1 billion
1982	15 million	171 million	41.4 billion
1981	12 million	167 million	42 billion
1980	10 million	371 million	37.4 billion
1979	15 million	313 million	33.3 billion
1978	38 million	50 million	39.2 billion
1977	28 million	171 million	37 billion
1976	134 million	252 million	33 billion
1975	445 million	253 million	34.2 billion
1974	9 million	282 million	32.9 billion
1973	5 million	89 million	32.6 billion
1972	15 million	181 million	28.7 billion
1971	165 million	171 million	29.3 billion
1970	19 million	92 million	22.1 billion
1969	28 million	139 million	24.7 billion
1968	7 million	6 million	22.4 billion
1967	16 million	–	22.1 billion
1966	27 million	8 million	22.4 billion
1965	23 million	1 million	23.1 billion
1964	64 million	–	24.2 billion
1963	32 million	–	18.1 billion
1962	13 million	–	15.5 billion
1961	9 million	–	15 billion
1960	2 million	–	15.7 billion

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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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