Germany vs Iran: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 1.7 billion TIV in Germany and 80 million TIV in Iran, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Germany, by 1.62 billion TIV, or 21 times that in Iran.

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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 1962.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Germany	Iran	World
2025	1.7 billion	80 million	33.5 billion
2024	2.11 billion	106 million	30.7 billion
2023	2.55 billion	170 million	29.5 billion
2022	1.51 billion	48 million	33.3 billion
2021	852 million	2 million	27.1 billion
2020	1.15 billion	16 million	24.1 billion
2019	978 million	9 million	27 billion
2018	1.1 billion	9 million	27.4 billion
2017	1.83 billion	24 million	31.3 billion
2016	2.51 billion	24 million	31.5 billion
2015	1.82 billion	11 million	28.7 billion
2014	1.83 billion	34 million	27.1 billion
2013	721 million	2 million	27.4 billion
2012	715 million	35 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.2 billion	77 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.36 billion	54 million	25.8 billion
2009	2.21 billion	99 million	24.4 billion
2008	2.38 billion	82 million	24.1 billion
2007	3.29 billion	2 million	26.5 billion
2006	2.48 billion	78 million	24.5 billion
2005	2.08 billion	4 million	21.4 billion
2004	1.09 billion	3 million	21.3 billion
2003	1.63 billion	12 million	19.2 billion
2002	889 million	9 million	17.7 billion
2001	851 million	0	18.5 billion
2000	1.67 billion	0	20.5 billion
1999	1.94 billion	0	25.4 billion
1998	1.84 billion	0	27.9 billion
1997	951 million	0	28.9 billion
1996	1.95 billion	3 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.53 billion	1 million	22.9 billion
1994	2.91 billion	0	23 billion
1993	1.55 billion	1 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.52 billion	1 million	24.3 billion
1991	2.41 billion	1 million	28.2 billion
1990	1.82 billion	0	30.2 billion
1989	1.26 billion	1 million	34.9 billion
1988	1.38 billion	1 million	36.8 billion
1987	908 million	1 million	39.4 billion
1986	1.35 billion	1 million	39 billion
1985	1.33 billion	1 million	38.2 billion
1984	2.93 billion	1 million	41.6 billion
1983	2.21 billion	1 million	43.9 billion
1982	1.51 billion	1 million	46.2 billion
1981	1.9 billion	1 million	45.8 billion
1980	1.6 billion	1 million	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	1.42 billion	86 million	37.2 billion
1974	1.19 billion	129 million	36.6 billion
1973	222 million	6 million	36.3 billion
1972	1.36 billion	106 million	34.5 billion
1971	1.36 billion	6 million	32.9 billion
1970	1.58 billion	23 million	25.3 billion
1969	882 million	–	28.1 billion
1968	588 million	–	26.1 billion
1967	758 million	28 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	3 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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