Germany vs Switzerland: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 1.7 billion TIV in Germany and 129 million TIV in Switzerland, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Germany, by 1.57 billion TIV, or 13 times that in Switzerland.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Germany has been higher since 1966, when it overtook Switzerland.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Germany	Switzerland	World
2025	1.7 billion	129 million	33.5 billion
2024	2.11 billion	11 million	30.7 billion
2023	2.55 billion	63 million	29.5 billion
2022	1.51 billion	181 million	33.3 billion
2021	852 million	107 million	27.1 billion
2020	1.15 billion	145 million	24.1 billion
2019	978 million	222 million	27 billion
2018	1.1 billion	244 million	27.4 billion
2017	1.83 billion	175 million	31.3 billion
2016	2.51 billion	220 million	31.5 billion
2015	1.82 billion	491 million	28.7 billion
2014	1.83 billion	352 million	27.1 billion
2013	721 million	213 million	27.4 billion
2012	715 million	257 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.2 billion	349 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.36 billion	285 million	25.8 billion
2009	2.21 billion	260 million	24.4 billion
2008	2.38 billion	506 million	24.1 billion
2007	3.29 billion	325 million	26.5 billion
2006	2.48 billion	320 million	24.5 billion
2005	2.08 billion	274 million	21.4 billion
2004	1.09 billion	293 million	21.3 billion
2003	1.63 billion	207 million	19.2 billion
2002	889 million	178 million	17.7 billion
2001	851 million	219 million	18.5 billion
2000	1.67 billion	140 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.94 billion	227 million	25.4 billion
1998	1.84 billion	198 million	27.9 billion
1997	951 million	131 million	28.9 billion
1996	1.95 billion	204 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.53 billion	144 million	22.9 billion
1994	2.91 billion	176 million	23 billion
1993	1.55 billion	232 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.52 billion	457 million	24.3 billion
1991	2.41 billion	508 million	28.2 billion
1990	1.82 billion	475 million	30.2 billion
1989	1.26 billion	318 million	34.9 billion
1988	1.38 billion	375 million	36.8 billion
1987	908 million	319 million	39.4 billion
1986	1.35 billion	340 million	39 billion
1985	1.33 billion	347 million	38.2 billion
1984	2.93 billion	529 million	41.6 billion
1983	2.21 billion	331 million	43.9 billion
1982	1.51 billion	413 million	46.2 billion
1981	1.9 billion	559 million	45.8 billion
1980	1.6 billion	566 million	42.2 billion
1979	1.43 billion	488 million	38.4 billion
1978	1.6 billion	223 million	42.4 billion
1977	1.93 billion	339 million	40 billion
1976	1.66 billion	592 million	36 billion
1975	1.42 billion	484 million	37.2 billion
1974	1.19 billion	89 million	36.6 billion
1973	222 million	54 million	36.3 billion
1972	1.36 billion	34 million	34.5 billion
1971	1.36 billion	42 million	32.9 billion
1970	1.58 billion	18 million	25.3 billion
1969	882 million	106 million	28.1 billion
1968	588 million	88 million	26.1 billion
1967	758 million	261 million	25.6 billion
1966	711 million	367 million	25.8 billion
1965	327 million	484 million	25.8 billion
1964	437 million	394 million	26.7 billion
1963	133 million	351 million	20.3 billion
1962	146 million	534 million	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	493 million	16.4 billion
1960	156 million	435 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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