Egypt vs Switzerland
Egypt vs Switzerland: Arms exports
Arms exports: 2 million TIV in Egypt in 2024 and 129 million TIV in Switzerland in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Switzerland, by 9 million TIV, or 5.5 times that in Egypt.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Switzerland has been higher since 1975, when it overtook Egypt.
- The world as a whole: 30.7 billion TIV in 2024.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Egypt | Switzerland | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 129 million | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 2 million | 11 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 4 million | 63 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 41 million | 181 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 41 million | 107 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | – | 145 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 8 million | 222 million | 27 billion |
| 2018 | – | 244 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | – | 175 million | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | – | 220 million | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 21 million | 491 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 7 million | 352 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | – | 213 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | – | 257 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | – | 349 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | – | 285 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | – | 260 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | – | 506 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | – | 325 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | – | 320 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | – | 274 million | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | – | 293 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | 207 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | 178 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | 219 million | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | – | 140 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | 227 million | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | – | 198 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 5 million | 131 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 5 million | 204 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 12 million | 144 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 17 million | 176 million | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 28 million | 232 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 15 million | 457 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | 508 million | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 25 million | 475 million | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 81 million | 318 million | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 81 million | 375 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 76 million | 319 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 19 million | 340 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 5 million | 347 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 37 million | 529 million | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 71 million | 331 million | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 81 million | 413 million | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 71 million | 559 million | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 29 million | 566 million | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 32 million | 488 million | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 78 million | 223 million | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 51 million | 339 million | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | 592 million | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 16 million | 484 million | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | – | 89 million | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | 54 million | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | 34 million | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | – | 42 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | 39 million | 18 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 15 million | 106 million | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | 26 million | 88 million | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | 15 million | 261 million | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 14 million | 367 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | 484 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 1 million | 394 million | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 8 million | 351 million | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 7 million | 534 million | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 0 | 493 million | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 0 | 435 million | 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.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Egypt vs Switzerland
Health
- Life expectancyEgypt: 71.6 years in 2023Switzerland: 84 years in 2023
- Child mortalityEgypt: 2.2 per 100 live births in 2024Switzerland: 0.4 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityEgypt: 14.6 per 1,000 live births in 2023Switzerland: 3.2 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionEgypt: 3.24% in 2017Switzerland: 3.71% in 2017
- Suicide rateEgypt: 5.5 per 100,000 people in 2017Switzerland: 9.3 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationEgypt: 115 million people in 2023Switzerland: 8.87 million people in 2023
- Population growthEgypt: 1.82% a year in 2023Switzerland: 0.62% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateEgypt: 2.75 births per woman in 2023Switzerland: 1.43 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationEgypt: 42.9% in 2025Switzerland: 85.7% in 2025
- Median ageEgypt: 24 years in 2023Switzerland: 42.3 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overEgypt: 5% in 2023Switzerland: 19.6% in 2023
- Net migration rateEgypt: 2.7 per 1,000 people in 2023Switzerland: 5.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingEgypt: 0.61% of GDP in 2025Switzerland: 0.76% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsEgypt: $2.26B in 2025Switzerland: $7.15B in 2025
- Military spending per personEgypt: $21 in 2025Switzerland: $849 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingEgypt: 2.5% of government spending in 2025Switzerland: 2.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelEgypt: 836,000 people in 2020Switzerland: 20,000 people in 2020
- National powerEgypt: 1.18% of world capability in 2022Switzerland: 0.12% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersEgypt: 2.76% of the labour force in 2020Switzerland: 0.4% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsEgypt: 697 million TIV in 2025Switzerland: 33 million TIV in 2023