Denmark vs Germany: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 165 million TIV in Denmark and 1.7 billion TIV in Germany, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Germany, by 1.53 billion TIV, or 10 times that in Denmark.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Germany has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1960.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Denmark	Germany	World
2025	165 million	1.7 billion	33.5 billion
2024	189 million	2.11 billion	30.7 billion
2023	46 million	2.55 billion	29.5 billion
2022	83 million	1.51 billion	33.3 billion
2021	29 million	852 million	27.1 billion
2020	–	1.15 billion	24.1 billion
2019	2 million	978 million	27 billion
2018	25 million	1.1 billion	27.4 billion
2017	13 million	1.83 billion	31.3 billion
2016	21 million	2.51 billion	31.5 billion
2015	22 million	1.82 billion	28.7 billion
2014	19 million	1.83 billion	27.1 billion
2013	8 million	721 million	27.4 billion
2012	26 million	715 million	27.9 billion
2011	26 million	1.2 billion	29.9 billion
2010	8 million	2.36 billion	25.8 billion
2009	10 million	2.21 billion	24.4 billion
2008	8 million	2.38 billion	24.1 billion
2007	6 million	3.29 billion	26.5 billion
2006	5 million	2.48 billion	24.5 billion
2005	–	2.08 billion	21.4 billion
2004	–	1.09 billion	21.3 billion
2003	2 million	1.63 billion	19.2 billion
2002	10 million	889 million	17.7 billion
2001	–	851 million	18.5 billion
2000	18 million	1.67 billion	20.5 billion
1999	3 million	1.94 billion	25.4 billion
1998	–	1.84 billion	27.9 billion
1997	–	951 million	28.9 billion
1996	13 million	1.95 billion	23.7 billion
1995	34 million	1.53 billion	22.9 billion
1994	268 million	2.91 billion	23 billion
1993	182 million	1.55 billion	25.8 billion
1992	–	1.52 billion	24.3 billion
1991	–	2.41 billion	28.2 billion
1990	80 million	1.82 billion	30.2 billion
1989	–	1.26 billion	34.9 billion
1988	36 million	1.38 billion	36.8 billion
1987	117 million	908 million	39.4 billion
1986	–	1.35 billion	39 billion
1985	–	1.33 billion	38.2 billion
1984	–	2.93 billion	41.6 billion
1983	115 million	2.21 billion	43.9 billion
1982	64 million	1.51 billion	46.2 billion
1981	29 million	1.9 billion	45.8 billion
1980	18 million	1.6 billion	42.2 billion
1979	–	1.43 billion	38.4 billion
1978	–	1.6 billion	42.4 billion
1977	–	1.93 billion	40 billion
1976	–	1.66 billion	36 billion
1975	24 million	1.42 billion	37.2 billion
1974	–	1.19 billion	36.6 billion
1973	–	222 million	36.3 billion
1972	–	1.36 billion	34.5 billion
1971	–	1.36 billion	32.9 billion
1970	–	1.58 billion	25.3 billion
1969	–	882 million	28.1 billion
1968	24 million	588 million	26.1 billion
1967	128 million	758 million	25.6 billion
1966	–	711 million	25.8 billion
1965	12 million	327 million	25.8 billion
1964	60 million	437 million	26.7 billion
1963	–	133 million	20.3 billion
1962	–	146 million	17.5 billion
1961	–	12 million	16.4 billion
1960	20 million	156 million	17.6 billion

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Major weapons the country sent abroad, 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.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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