Congo - Kinshasa vs Netherlands: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 44 million TIV in Congo - Kinshasa and 824 million TIV in Netherlands, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Netherlands, by 780 million TIV, or 19 times that in Congo - Kinshasa.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Netherlands has been higher since 1976, when it overtook Congo - Kinshasa.
In 2025, Congo - Kinshasa ranked 58 and Netherlands ranked 12 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	Netherlands	World
2025	44 million	824 million	33.3 billion
2024	40 million	333 million	30.6 billion
2023	27 million	374 million	29.5 billion
2022	–	725 million	33 billion
2021	–	512 million	26.8 billion
2020	9 million	575 million	23.4 billion
2019	–	494 million	26.9 billion
2018	1 million	139 million	27.3 billion
2017	–	33 million	31.2 billion
2016	43 million	69 million	31.4 billion
2015	3 million	51 million	28.7 billion
2014	–	8 million	27 billion
2013	1 million	488 million	27.4 billion
2012	15 million	190 million	27.9 billion
2011	–	115 million	29.9 billion
2010	156 million	171 million	25.8 billion
2009	37 million	262 million	24 billion
2008	18 million	147 million	24.1 billion
2007	–	221 million	26.5 billion
2006	24 million	304 million	24.4 billion
2005	26 million	86 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	130 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	128 million	19.2 billion
2002	18 million	247 million	17.7 billion
2001	11 million	164 million	18.3 billion
2000	89 million	123 million	20.5 billion
1999	46 million	278 million	25.3 billion
1998	10 million	269 million	27.9 billion
1997	6 million	126 million	28.9 billion
1996	61 million	203 million	23.7 billion
1995	0	84 million	22.9 billion
1994	–	205 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	140 million	25.8 billion
1992	2 million	237 million	24.3 billion
1991	–	322 million	27.8 billion
1990	4 million	273 million	28.6 billion
1989	–	705 million	31.7 billion
1988	1 million	393 million	32.9 billion
1987	36 million	614 million	36.2 billion
1986	1 million	792 million	35.5 billion
1985	1 million	892 million	33.2 billion
1984	16 million	1.17 billion	36.8 billion
1983	5 million	1.33 billion	39.1 billion
1982	15 million	1.24 billion	41.4 billion
1981	12 million	755 million	42 billion
1980	10 million	645 million	37.4 billion
1979	15 million	792 million	33.3 billion
1978	38 million	717 million	39.2 billion
1977	28 million	606 million	37 billion
1976	134 million	285 million	33 billion
1975	445 million	108 million	34.2 billion
1974	9 million	40 million	32.9 billion
1973	5 million	21 million	32.6 billion
1972	15 million	650 million	28.7 billion
1971	165 million	698 million	29.3 billion
1970	19 million	699 million	22.1 billion
1969	28 million	569 million	24.7 billion
1968	7 million	288 million	22.4 billion
1967	16 million	751 million	22.1 billion
1966	27 million	204 million	22.4 billion
1965	23 million	815 million	23.1 billion
1964	64 million	1.01 billion	24.2 billion
1963	32 million	767 million	18.1 billion
1962	13 million	294 million	15.5 billion
1961	9 million	227 million	15 billion
1960	2 million	255 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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Deaths in conflictsCongo - Kinshasa: 5,228 deaths in 2022Netherlands: 0 deaths in 2022