India vs Iran: Arms imports

Arms imports: 2.86 billion TIV in India in 2025 and 42 million TIV in Iran in 2024, by SIPRI estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in India, by 1.56 billion TIV, or 38 times that in Iran.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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India has been higher since 1994, when it overtook Iran.
The world as a whole: 30.6 billion TIV in 2024.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	India	Iran	World
2025	2.86 billion	–	33.3 billion
2024	1.6 billion	42 million	30.6 billion
2023	1.54 billion	21 million	29.5 billion
2022	2.7 billion	–	33 billion
2021	3.96 billion	–	26.8 billion
2020	2.67 billion	2 million	23.4 billion
2019	3.2 billion	3 million	26.9 billion
2018	1.98 billion	3 million	27.3 billion
2017	2.68 billion	3 million	31.2 billion
2016	2.65 billion	413 million	31.4 billion
2015	2.73 billion	11 million	28.7 billion
2014	3.28 billion	14 million	27 billion
2013	5.3 billion	14 million	27.4 billion
2012	4.51 billion	39 million	27.9 billion
2011	3.63 billion	89 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.9 billion	87 million	25.8 billion
2009	1.96 billion	92 million	24 billion
2008	1.64 billion	57 million	24.1 billion
2007	2.3 billion	325 million	26.5 billion
2006	1.49 billion	418 million	24.4 billion
2005	1.2 billion	53 million	21.3 billion
2004	2.25 billion	117 million	21.3 billion
2003	2.8 billion	283 million	19.2 billion
2002	1.9 billion	435 million	17.7 billion
2001	1.05 billion	526 million	18.3 billion
2000	988 million	417 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.22 billion	321 million	25.3 billion
1998	797 million	374 million	27.9 billion
1997	1.68 billion	172 million	28.9 billion
1996	831 million	608 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.36 billion	289 million	22.9 billion
1994	873 million	451 million	22.8 billion
1993	737 million	960 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.19 billion	406 million	24.3 billion
1991	1.88 billion	990 million	27.8 billion
1990	2.83 billion	444 million	28.6 billion
1989	3.68 billion	194 million	31.7 billion
1988	3.85 billion	469 million	32.9 billion
1987	3.92 billion	807 million	36.2 billion
1986	4.24 billion	805 million	35.5 billion
1985	3 billion	639 million	33.2 billion
1984	2.43 billion	562 million	36.8 billion
1983	2.64 billion	466 million	39.1 billion
1982	2.65 billion	499 million	41.4 billion
1981	2.12 billion	487 million	42 billion
1980	1.77 billion	278 million	37.4 billion
1979	1.2 billion	526 million	33.3 billion
1978	1.2 billion	3.72 billion	39.2 billion
1977	2.38 billion	5.48 billion	37 billion
1976	1.94 billion	4.65 billion	33 billion
1975	1.53 billion	5.23 billion	34.2 billion
1974	1.33 billion	2.86 billion	32.9 billion
1973	1.51 billion	2.05 billion	32.6 billion
1972	2.09 billion	1.38 billion	28.7 billion
1971	2.02 billion	2.1 billion	29.3 billion
1970	963 million	899 million	22.1 billion
1969	1.37 billion	950 million	24.7 billion
1968	1.37 billion	917 million	22.4 billion
1967	1.13 billion	553 million	22.1 billion
1966	961 million	601 million	22.4 billion
1965	1 billion	496 million	23.1 billion
1964	794 million	139 million	24.2 billion
1963	695 million	105 million	18.1 billion
1962	402 million	83 million	15.5 billion
1961	1.15 billion	75 million	15 billion
1960	544 million	141 million	15.7 billion

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Major weapons the country received, 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.
Ranks count the 110 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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