Germany vs India: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 1.7 billion TIV in Germany and 81 million TIV in India, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Germany, by 1.62 billion TIV, or 21 times that in India.

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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 1968.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Germany	India	World
2025	1.7 billion	81 million	33.5 billion
2024	2.11 billion	94 million	30.7 billion
2023	2.55 billion	41 million	29.5 billion
2022	1.51 billion	7 million	33.3 billion
2021	852 million	54 million	27.1 billion
2020	1.15 billion	153 million	24.1 billion
2019	978 million	20 million	27 billion
2018	1.1 billion	47 million	27.4 billion
2017	1.83 billion	56 million	31.3 billion
2016	2.51 billion	49 million	31.5 billion
2015	1.82 billion	42 million	28.7 billion
2014	1.83 billion	40 million	27.1 billion
2013	721 million	18 million	27.4 billion
2012	715 million	–	27.9 billion
2011	1.2 billion	3 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.36 billion	5 million	25.8 billion
2009	2.21 billion	27 million	24.4 billion
2008	2.38 billion	15 million	24.1 billion
2007	3.29 billion	23 million	26.5 billion
2006	2.48 billion	33 million	24.5 billion
2005	2.08 billion	19 million	21.4 billion
2004	1.09 billion	31 million	21.3 billion
2003	1.63 billion	4 million	19.2 billion
2002	889 million	0	17.7 billion
2001	851 million	2 million	18.5 billion
2000	1.67 billion	21 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.94 billion	–	25.4 billion
1998	1.84 billion	–	27.9 billion
1997	951 million	–	28.9 billion
1996	1.95 billion	–	23.7 billion
1995	1.53 billion	2 million	22.9 billion
1994	2.91 billion	2 million	23 billion
1993	1.55 billion	9 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.52 billion	7 million	24.3 billion
1991	2.41 billion	–	28.2 billion
1990	1.82 billion	7 million	30.2 billion
1989	1.26 billion	–	34.9 billion
1988	1.38 billion	1 million	36.8 billion
1987	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	2.21 billion	–	43.9 billion
1982	1.51 billion	2 million	46.2 billion
1981	1.9 billion	–	45.8 billion
1980	1.6 billion	–	42.2 billion
1979	1.43 billion	22 million	38.4 billion
1978	1.6 billion	27 million	42.4 billion
1977	1.93 billion	–	40 billion
1976	1.66 billion	–	36 billion
1975	1.42 billion	31 million	37.2 billion
1974	1.19 billion	24 million	36.6 billion
1973	222 million	21 million	36.3 billion
1972	1.36 billion	2 million	34.5 billion
1971	1.36 billion	7 million	32.9 billion
1970	1.58 billion	–	25.3 billion
1969	882 million	–	28.1 billion
1968	588 million	1 million	26.1 billion
1967	758 million	–	25.6 billion
1966	711 million	–	25.8 billion
1965	327 million	–	25.8 billion
1964	437 million	–	26.7 billion
1963	133 million	–	20.3 billion
1962	146 million	–	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	–	16.4 billion
1960	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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