India vs Nigeria: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 2.86 billion TIV in India and 21 million TIV in Nigeria, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in India, by 2.84 billion TIV, or 140 times that in Nigeria.

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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 1961.
The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	India	Nigeria	World
2025	2.86 billion	21 million	33.3 billion
2024	1.6 billion	93 million	30.6 billion
2023	1.54 billion	93 million	29.5 billion
2022	2.7 billion	53 million	33 billion
2021	3.96 billion	273 million	26.8 billion
2020	2.67 billion	84 million	23.4 billion
2019	3.2 billion	18 million	26.9 billion
2018	1.98 billion	49 million	27.3 billion
2017	2.68 billion	42 million	31.2 billion
2016	2.65 billion	61 million	31.4 billion
2015	2.73 billion	188 million	28.7 billion
2014	3.28 billion	236 million	27 billion
2013	5.3 billion	30 million	27.4 billion
2012	4.51 billion	28 million	27.9 billion
2011	3.63 billion	63 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.9 billion	223 million	25.8 billion
2009	1.96 billion	65 million	24 billion
2008	1.64 billion	33 million	24.1 billion
2007	2.3 billion	62 million	26.5 billion
2006	1.49 billion	16 million	24.4 billion
2005	1.2 billion	–	21.3 billion
2004	2.25 billion	11 million	21.3 billion
2003	2.8 billion	66 million	19.2 billion
2002	1.9 billion	6 million	17.7 billion
2001	1.05 billion	9 million	18.3 billion
2000	988 million	36 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.22 billion	–	25.3 billion
1998	797 million	–	27.9 billion
1997	1.68 billion	1 million	28.9 billion
1996	831 million	15 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.36 billion	2 million	22.9 billion
1994	873 million	95 million	22.8 billion
1993	737 million	41 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.19 billion	59 million	24.3 billion
1991	1.88 billion	4 million	27.8 billion
1990	2.83 billion	18 million	28.6 billion
1989	3.68 billion	15 million	31.7 billion
1988	3.85 billion	62 million	32.9 billion
1987	3.92 billion	115 million	36.2 billion
1986	4.24 billion	211 million	35.5 billion
1985	3 billion	569 million	33.2 billion
1984	2.43 billion	359 million	36.8 billion
1983	2.64 billion	41 million	39.1 billion
1982	2.65 billion	642 million	41.4 billion
1981	2.12 billion	331 million	42 billion
1980	1.77 billion	474 million	37.4 billion
1979	1.2 billion	108 million	33.3 billion
1978	1.2 billion	142 million	39.2 billion
1977	2.38 billion	90 million	37 billion
1976	1.94 billion	104 million	33 billion
1975	1.53 billion	424 million	34.2 billion
1974	1.33 billion	24 million	32.9 billion
1973	1.51 billion	7 million	32.6 billion
1972	2.09 billion	113 million	28.7 billion
1971	2.02 billion	12 million	29.3 billion
1970	963 million	14 million	22.1 billion
1969	1.37 billion	39 million	24.7 billion
1968	1.37 billion	50 million	22.4 billion
1967	1.13 billion	47 million	22.1 billion
1966	961 million	159 million	22.4 billion
1965	1 billion	56 million	23.1 billion
1964	794 million	2 million	24.2 billion
1963	695 million	9 million	18.1 billion
1962	402 million	8 million	15.5 billion
1961	1.15 billion	1 million	15 billion
1960	544 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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