India vs Mexico: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 2.86 billion TIV in India and 9 million TIV in Mexico, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in India, by 2.85 billion TIV, or 320 times that in Mexico.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

India has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1960.
The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	India	Mexico	World
2025	2.86 billion	9 million	33.3 billion
2024	1.6 billion	46 million	30.6 billion
2023	1.54 billion	4 million	29.5 billion
2022	2.7 billion	–	33 billion
2021	3.96 billion	3 million	26.8 billion
2020	2.67 billion	277 million	23.4 billion
2019	3.2 billion	–	26.9 billion
2018	1.98 billion	16 million	27.3 billion
2017	2.68 billion	215 million	31.2 billion
2016	2.65 billion	328 million	31.4 billion
2015	2.73 billion	324 million	28.7 billion
2014	3.28 billion	89 million	27 billion
2013	5.3 billion	52 million	27.4 billion
2012	4.51 billion	260 million	27.9 billion
2011	3.63 billion	225 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.9 billion	109 million	25.8 billion
2009	1.96 billion	59 million	24 billion
2008	1.64 billion	23 million	24.1 billion
2007	2.3 billion	–	26.5 billion
2006	1.49 billion	78 million	24.4 billion
2005	1.2 billion	40 million	21.3 billion
2004	2.25 billion	321 million	21.3 billion
2003	2.8 billion	20 million	19.2 billion
2002	1.9 billion	97 million	17.7 billion
2001	1.05 billion	149 million	18.3 billion
2000	988 million	215 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.22 billion	136 million	25.3 billion
1998	797 million	19 million	27.9 billion
1997	1.68 billion	495 million	28.9 billion
1996	831 million	92 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.36 billion	55 million	22.9 billion
1994	873 million	136 million	22.8 billion
1993	737 million	160 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.19 billion	19 million	24.3 billion
1991	1.88 billion	40 million	27.8 billion
1990	2.83 billion	32 million	28.6 billion
1989	3.68 billion	63 million	31.7 billion
1988	3.85 billion	103 million	32.9 billion
1987	3.92 billion	154 million	36.2 billion
1986	4.24 billion	137 million	35.5 billion
1985	3 billion	8 million	33.2 billion
1984	2.43 billion	–	36.8 billion
1983	2.64 billion	116 million	39.1 billion
1982	2.65 billion	343 million	41.4 billion
1981	2.12 billion	115 million	42 billion
1980	1.77 billion	75 million	37.4 billion
1979	1.2 billion	68 million	33.3 billion
1978	1.2 billion	74 million	39.2 billion
1977	2.38 billion	39 million	37 billion
1976	1.94 billion	69 million	33 billion
1975	1.53 billion	104 million	34.2 billion
1974	1.33 billion	61 million	32.9 billion
1973	1.51 billion	158 million	32.6 billion
1972	2.09 billion	15 million	28.7 billion
1971	2.02 billion	48 million	29.3 billion
1970	963 million	82 million	22.1 billion
1969	1.37 billion	–	24.7 billion
1968	1.37 billion	–	22.4 billion
1967	1.13 billion	15 million	22.1 billion
1966	961 million	22 million	22.4 billion
1965	1 billion	12 million	23.1 billion
1964	794 million	38 million	24.2 billion
1963	695 million	60 million	18.1 billion
1962	402 million	109 million	15.5 billion
1961	1.15 billion	30 million	15 billion
1960	544 million	20 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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