Germany vs Spain: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 1.7 billion TIV in Germany and 341 million TIV in Spain, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Germany, by 1.36 billion TIV, or 4.97 times that in Spain.

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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	Spain	World
2025	1.7 billion	341 million	33.5 billion
2024	2.11 billion	606 million	30.7 billion
2023	2.55 billion	912 million	29.5 billion
2022	1.51 billion	1.01 billion	33.3 billion
2021	852 million	676 million	27.1 billion
2020	1.15 billion	1.01 billion	24.1 billion
2019	978 million	318 million	27 billion
2018	1.1 billion	705 million	27.4 billion
2017	1.83 billion	820 million	31.3 billion
2016	2.51 billion	481 million	31.5 billion
2015	1.82 billion	982 million	28.7 billion
2014	1.83 billion	962 million	27.1 billion
2013	721 million	450 million	27.4 billion
2012	715 million	266 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.2 billion	997 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.36 billion	273 million	25.8 billion
2009	2.21 billion	984 million	24.4 billion
2008	2.38 billion	626 million	24.1 billion
2007	3.29 billion	628 million	26.5 billion
2006	2.48 billion	898 million	24.5 billion
2005	2.08 billion	113 million	21.4 billion
2004	1.09 billion	54 million	21.3 billion
2003	1.63 billion	99 million	19.2 billion
2002	889 million	18 million	17.7 billion
2001	851 million	8 million	18.5 billion
2000	1.67 billion	47 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.94 billion	46 million	25.4 billion
1998	1.84 billion	174 million	27.9 billion
1997	951 million	605 million	28.9 billion
1996	1.95 billion	112 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.53 billion	88 million	22.9 billion
1994	2.91 billion	253 million	23 billion
1993	1.55 billion	103 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.52 billion	70 million	24.3 billion
1991	2.41 billion	103 million	28.2 billion
1990	1.82 billion	116 million	30.2 billion
1989	1.26 billion	167 million	34.9 billion
1988	1.38 billion	136 million	36.8 billion
1987	908 million	152 million	39.4 billion
1986	1.35 billion	197 million	39 billion
1985	1.33 billion	92 million	38.2 billion
1984	2.93 billion	244 million	41.6 billion
1983	2.21 billion	367 million	43.9 billion
1982	1.51 billion	263 million	46.2 billion
1981	1.9 billion	135 million	45.8 billion
1980	1.6 billion	10 million	42.2 billion
1979	1.43 billion	18 million	38.4 billion
1978	1.6 billion	38 million	42.4 billion
1977	1.93 billion	25 million	40 billion
1976	1.66 billion	46 million	36 billion
1975	1.42 billion	272 million	37.2 billion
1974	1.19 billion	82 million	36.6 billion
1973	222 million	18 million	36.3 billion
1972	1.36 billion	18 million	34.5 billion
1971	1.36 billion	140 million	32.9 billion
1970	1.58 billion	70 million	25.3 billion
1969	882 million	10 million	28.1 billion
1968	588 million	12 million	26.1 billion
1967	758 million	12 million	25.6 billion
1966	711 million	26 million	25.8 billion
1965	327 million	33 million	25.8 billion
1964	437 million	12 million	26.7 billion
1963	133 million	10 million	20.3 billion
1962	146 million	10 million	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	8 million	16.4 billion
1960	156 million	2 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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