Congo - Kinshasa vs Switzerland: Arms imports

Arms imports: 44 million TIV in Congo - Kinshasa in 2025 and 33 million TIV in Switzerland in 2023, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Switzerland, by 6 million TIV, or 1.22 times that in Congo - Kinshasa.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Switzerland has been higher since 2015, when it overtook Congo - Kinshasa.
The world as a whole: 29.5 billion TIV in 2023.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland	World
2025	44 million	–	33.3 billion
2024	40 million	–	30.6 billion
2023	27 million	33 million	29.5 billion
2022	–	15 million	33 billion
2021	–	–	26.8 billion
2020	9 million	–	23.4 billion
2019	–	–	26.9 billion
2018	1 million	–	27.3 billion
2017	–	–	31.2 billion
2016	43 million	70 million	31.4 billion
2015	3 million	10 million	28.7 billion
2014	–	5 million	27 billion
2013	1 million	–	27.4 billion
2012	15 million	2 million	27.9 billion
2011	–	24 million	29.9 billion
2010	156 million	38 million	25.8 billion
2009	37 million	36 million	24 billion
2008	18 million	15 million	24.1 billion
2007	–	108 million	26.5 billion
2006	24 million	83 million	24.4 billion
2005	26 million	168 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	203 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	117 million	19.2 billion
2002	18 million	58 million	17.7 billion
2001	11 million	60 million	18.3 billion
2000	89 million	15 million	20.5 billion
1999	46 million	499 million	25.3 billion
1998	10 million	428 million	27.9 billion
1997	6 million	375 million	28.9 billion
1996	61 million	187 million	23.7 billion
1995	0	93 million	22.9 billion
1994	–	114 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	98 million	25.8 billion
1992	2 million	381 million	24.3 billion
1991	–	469 million	27.8 billion
1990	4 million	433 million	28.6 billion
1989	–	318 million	31.7 billion
1988	1 million	179 million	32.9 billion
1987	36 million	151 million	36.2 billion
1986	1 million	108 million	35.5 billion
1985	1 million	341 million	33.2 billion
1984	16 million	404 million	36.8 billion
1983	5 million	442 million	39.1 billion
1982	15 million	175 million	41.4 billion
1981	12 million	289 million	42 billion
1980	10 million	272 million	37.4 billion
1979	15 million	226 million	33.3 billion
1978	38 million	217 million	39.2 billion
1977	28 million	4 million	37 billion
1976	134 million	142 million	33 billion
1975	445 million	136 million	34.2 billion
1974	9 million	64 million	32.9 billion
1973	5 million	123 million	32.6 billion
1972	15 million	192 million	28.7 billion
1971	165 million	153 million	29.3 billion
1970	19 million	142 million	22.1 billion
1969	28 million	166 million	24.7 billion
1968	7 million	199 million	22.4 billion
1967	16 million	177 million	22.1 billion
1966	27 million	373 million	22.4 billion
1965	23 million	228 million	23.1 billion
1964	64 million	263 million	24.2 billion
1963	32 million	52 million	18.1 billion
1962	13 million	4 million	15.5 billion
1961	9 million	37 million	15 billion
1960	2 million	218 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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Deaths in conflictsCongo - Kinshasa: 5,228 deaths in 2022Switzerland: 0 deaths in 2022