Germany vs United Arab Emirates: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 1.7 billion TIV in Germany and 33 million TIV in United Arab Emirates, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Germany, by 1.66 billion TIV, or 51 times that in United Arab Emirates.

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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 1974.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Germany	United Arab Emirates	World
2025	1.7 billion	33 million	33.5 billion
2024	2.11 billion	119 million	30.7 billion
2023	2.55 billion	64 million	29.5 billion
2022	1.51 billion	17 million	33.3 billion
2021	852 million	57 million	27.1 billion
2020	1.15 billion	209 million	24.1 billion
2019	978 million	131 million	27 billion
2018	1.1 billion	120 million	27.4 billion
2017	1.83 billion	106 million	31.3 billion
2016	2.51 billion	111 million	31.5 billion
2015	1.82 billion	143 million	28.7 billion
2014	1.83 billion	100 million	27.1 billion
2013	721 million	115 million	27.4 billion
2012	715 million	75 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.2 billion	3 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.36 billion	39 million	25.8 billion
2009	2.21 billion	34 million	24.4 billion
2008	2.38 billion	–	24.1 billion
2007	3.29 billion	3 million	26.5 billion
2006	2.48 billion	17 million	24.5 billion
2005	2.08 billion	15 million	21.4 billion
2004	1.09 billion	3 million	21.3 billion
2003	1.63 billion	–	19.2 billion
2002	889 million	–	17.7 billion
2001	851 million	–	18.5 billion
2000	1.67 billion	–	20.5 billion
1999	1.94 billion	–	25.4 billion
1998	1.84 billion	–	27.9 billion
1997	951 million	37 million	28.9 billion
1996	1.95 billion	6 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.53 billion	28 million	22.9 billion
1994	2.91 billion	–	23 billion
1993	1.55 billion	–	25.8 billion
1992	1.52 billion	–	24.3 billion
1991	2.41 billion	–	28.2 billion
1990	1.82 billion	2 million	30.2 billion
1989	1.26 billion	–	34.9 billion
1988	1.38 billion	–	36.8 billion
1987	908 million	2 million	39.4 billion
1986	1.35 billion	22 million	39 billion
1985	1.33 billion	–	38.2 billion
1984	2.93 billion	–	41.6 billion
1983	2.21 billion	14 million	43.9 billion
1982	1.51 billion	–	46.2 billion
1981	1.9 billion	–	45.8 billion
1980	1.6 billion	–	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	–	37.2 billion
1974	1.19 billion	8 million	36.6 billion
1973	222 million	–	36.3 billion
1972	1.36 billion	–	34.5 billion
1971	1.36 billion	–	32.9 billion
1970	1.58 billion	–	25.3 billion
1969	882 million	–	28.1 billion
1968	588 million	–	26.1 billion
1967	758 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	–	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	–	16.4 billion
1960	156 million	–	17.6 billion

Each country on its own

Good to know

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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