Egypt vs Pakistan: Arms exports
Arms exports: 2 million TIV in Egypt in 2024 and 127 million TIV in Pakistan in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Pakistan, by 4 million TIV, or 3 times that in Egypt.
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Watch it change on the mapSIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
Latest figures
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Country | Latest | 10 years before |
|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 2 million 2024 | 7 million |
| Pakistan | 127 million 2025 | — |
| World | 33.5 billion 2025 | 28.7 billion |
What the numbers say
- Pakistan has been higher since 2023, when it overtook Egypt.
- The world as a whole: 30.7 billion TIV in 2024.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Egypt | Pakistan | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 127 million | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 2 million | 6 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 4 million | 5 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 41 million | 1 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 41 million | 72 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | – | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 8 million | 1 million | 27 billion |
| 2018 | – | 3 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | – | 3 million | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | – | 1 million | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 21 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 7 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | – | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | – | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | – | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | – | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | – | 1 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | – | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | – | 4 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | – | 26 million | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | – | 9 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | 8 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | 9 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | – | 4 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | – | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 5 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 5 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 12 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 17 million | 2 million | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 28 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 15 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | 3 million | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 25 million | 82 million | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 81 million | 1 million | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 81 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 76 million | – | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 19 million | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 5 million | 12 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 37 million | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 71 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 81 million | 30 million | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 71 million | 30 million | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 29 million | 15 million | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 32 million | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 78 million | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 51 million | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 16 million | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | – | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | – | 3 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | 39 million | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 15 million | – | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | 26 million | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | 15 million | 6 million | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 14 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 1 million | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 8 million | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 7 million | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 0 | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 0 | – | 17.6 billion |
Each country on its own
Good to know
- 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.
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