Germany vs Sweden: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 1.7 billion TIV in Germany and 235 million TIV in Sweden, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Germany, by 1.46 billion TIV, or 7.22 times that in Sweden.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Germany has been higher since 2002, when it overtook Sweden.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Germany	Sweden	World
2025	1.7 billion	235 million	33.5 billion
2024	2.11 billion	405 million	30.7 billion
2023	2.55 billion	373 million	29.5 billion
2022	1.51 billion	83 million	33.3 billion
2021	852 million	236 million	27.1 billion
2020	1.15 billion	263 million	24.1 billion
2019	978 million	121 million	27 billion
2018	1.1 billion	135 million	27.4 billion
2017	1.83 billion	75 million	31.3 billion
2016	2.51 billion	248 million	31.5 billion
2015	1.82 billion	178 million	28.7 billion
2014	1.83 billion	340 million	27.1 billion
2013	721 million	383 million	27.4 billion
2012	715 million	436 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.2 billion	658 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.36 billion	612 million	25.8 billion
2009	2.21 billion	389 million	24.4 billion
2008	2.38 billion	461 million	24.1 billion
2007	3.29 billion	332 million	26.5 billion
2006	2.48 billion	384 million	24.5 billion
2005	2.08 billion	536 million	21.4 billion
2004	1.09 billion	297 million	21.3 billion
2003	1.63 billion	516 million	19.2 billion
2002	889 million	164 million	17.7 billion
2001	851 million	892 million	18.5 billion
2000	1.67 billion	355 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.94 billion	383 million	25.4 billion
1998	1.84 billion	332 million	27.9 billion
1997	951 million	99 million	28.9 billion
1996	1.95 billion	344 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.53 billion	226 million	22.9 billion
1994	2.91 billion	111 million	23 billion
1993	1.55 billion	103 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.52 billion	147 million	24.3 billion
1991	2.41 billion	155 million	28.2 billion
1990	1.82 billion	224 million	30.2 billion
1989	1.26 billion	401 million	34.9 billion
1988	1.38 billion	512 million	36.8 billion
1987	908 million	230 million	39.4 billion
1986	1.35 billion	320 million	39 billion
1985	1.33 billion	215 million	38.2 billion
1984	2.93 billion	227 million	41.6 billion
1983	2.21 billion	118 million	43.9 billion
1982	1.51 billion	120 million	46.2 billion
1981	1.9 billion	127 million	45.8 billion
1980	1.6 billion	157 million	42.2 billion
1979	1.43 billion	261 million	38.4 billion
1978	1.6 billion	55 million	42.4 billion
1977	1.93 billion	75 million	40 billion
1976	1.66 billion	101 million	36 billion
1975	1.42 billion	69 million	37.2 billion
1974	1.19 billion	75 million	36.6 billion
1973	222 million	15 million	36.3 billion
1972	1.36 billion	163 million	34.5 billion
1971	1.36 billion	547 million	32.9 billion
1970	1.58 billion	158 million	25.3 billion
1969	882 million	36 million	28.1 billion
1968	588 million	60 million	26.1 billion
1967	758 million	55 million	25.6 billion
1966	711 million	56 million	25.8 billion
1965	327 million	32 million	25.8 billion
1964	437 million	22 million	26.7 billion
1963	133 million	13 million	20.3 billion
1962	146 million	44 million	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	46 million	16.4 billion
1960	156 million	38 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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