Germany vs Poland: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 1.7 billion TIV in Germany and 59 million TIV in Poland, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Germany, by 1.64 billion TIV, or 29 times that in Poland.

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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	Germany	Poland	World
2025	1.7 billion	59 million	33.5 billion
2024	2.11 billion	145 million	30.7 billion
2023	2.55 billion	576 million	29.5 billion
2022	1.51 billion	707 million	33.3 billion
2021	852 million	3 million	27.1 billion
2020	1.15 billion	0	24.1 billion
2019	978 million	10 million	27 billion
2018	1.1 billion	11 million	27.4 billion
2017	1.83 billion	8 million	31.3 billion
2016	2.51 billion	5 million	31.5 billion
2015	1.82 billion	2 million	28.7 billion
2014	1.83 billion	33 million	27.1 billion
2013	721 million	147 million	27.4 billion
2012	715 million	31 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.2 billion	8 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.36 billion	28 million	25.8 billion
2009	2.21 billion	75 million	24.4 billion
2008	2.38 billion	73 million	24.1 billion
2007	3.29 billion	163 million	26.5 billion
2006	2.48 billion	282 million	24.5 billion
2005	2.08 billion	18 million	21.4 billion
2004	1.09 billion	47 million	21.3 billion
2003	1.63 billion	83 million	19.2 billion
2002	889 million	56 million	17.7 billion
2001	851 million	81 million	18.5 billion
2000	1.67 billion	47 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.94 billion	65 million	25.4 billion
1998	1.84 billion	1 million	27.9 billion
1997	951 million	23 million	28.9 billion
1996	1.95 billion	57 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.53 billion	179 million	22.9 billion
1994	2.91 billion	133 million	23 billion
1993	1.55 billion	–	25.8 billion
1992	1.52 billion	57 million	24.3 billion
1991	2.41 billion	62 million	28.2 billion
1990	1.82 billion	112 million	30.2 billion
1989	1.26 billion	20 million	34.9 billion
1988	1.38 billion	232 million	36.8 billion
1987	908 million	222 million	39.4 billion
1986	1.35 billion	265 million	39 billion
1985	1.33 billion	131 million	38.2 billion
1984	2.93 billion	91 million	41.6 billion
1983	2.21 billion	134 million	43.9 billion
1982	1.51 billion	230 million	46.2 billion
1981	1.9 billion	365 million	45.8 billion
1980	1.6 billion	226 million	42.2 billion
1979	1.43 billion	247 million	38.4 billion
1978	1.6 billion	336 million	42.4 billion
1977	1.93 billion	400 million	40 billion
1976	1.66 billion	425 million	36 billion
1975	1.42 billion	316 million	37.2 billion
1974	1.19 billion	249 million	36.6 billion
1973	222 million	158 million	36.3 billion
1972	1.36 billion	276 million	34.5 billion
1971	1.36 billion	278 million	32.9 billion
1970	1.58 billion	268 million	25.3 billion
1969	882 million	323 million	28.1 billion
1968	588 million	288 million	26.1 billion
1967	758 million	309 million	25.6 billion
1966	711 million	319 million	25.8 billion
1965	327 million	234 million	25.8 billion
1964	437 million	237 million	26.7 billion
1963	133 million	111 million	20.3 billion
1962	146 million	7 million	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	–	16.4 billion
1960	156 million	0	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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