India vs Sri Lanka: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 2.86 billion TIV in India and 11 million TIV in Sri Lanka, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in India, by 2.85 billion TIV, or 260 times that in Sri Lanka.

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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	Sri Lanka	World
2025	2.86 billion	11 million	33.3 billion
2024	1.6 billion	9 million	30.6 billion
2023	1.54 billion	5 million	29.5 billion
2022	2.7 billion	3 million	33 billion
2021	3.96 billion	54 million	26.8 billion
2020	2.67 billion	–	23.4 billion
2019	3.2 billion	59 million	26.9 billion
2018	1.98 billion	100 million	27.3 billion
2017	2.68 billion	45 million	31.2 billion
2016	2.65 billion	–	31.4 billion
2015	2.73 billion	–	28.7 billion
2014	3.28 billion	5 million	27 billion
2013	5.3 billion	22 million	27.4 billion
2012	4.51 billion	–	27.9 billion
2011	3.63 billion	21 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.9 billion	5 million	25.8 billion
2009	1.96 billion	21 million	24 billion
2008	1.64 billion	79 million	24.1 billion
2007	2.3 billion	91 million	26.5 billion
2006	1.49 billion	96 million	24.4 billion
2005	1.2 billion	63 million	21.3 billion
2004	2.25 billion	38 million	21.3 billion
2003	2.8 billion	34 million	19.2 billion
2002	1.9 billion	43 million	17.7 billion
2001	1.05 billion	154 million	18.3 billion
2000	988 million	294 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.22 billion	62 million	25.3 billion
1998	797 million	83 million	27.9 billion
1997	1.68 billion	59 million	28.9 billion
1996	831 million	196 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.36 billion	63 million	22.9 billion
1994	873 million	77 million	22.8 billion
1993	737 million	37 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.19 billion	22 million	24.3 billion
1991	1.88 billion	168 million	27.8 billion
1990	2.83 billion	19 million	28.6 billion
1989	3.68 billion	6 million	31.7 billion
1988	3.85 billion	19 million	32.9 billion
1987	3.92 billion	111 million	36.2 billion
1986	4.24 billion	28 million	35.5 billion
1985	3 billion	42 million	33.2 billion
1984	2.43 billion	48 million	36.8 billion
1983	2.64 billion	–	39.1 billion
1982	2.65 billion	–	41.4 billion
1981	2.12 billion	–	42 billion
1980	1.77 billion	18 million	37.4 billion
1979	1.2 billion	–	33.3 billion
1978	1.2 billion	7 million	39.2 billion
1977	2.38 billion	17 million	37 billion
1976	1.94 billion	0	33 billion
1975	1.53 billion	1 million	34.2 billion
1974	1.33 billion	–	32.9 billion
1973	1.51 billion	–	32.6 billion
1972	2.09 billion	47 million	28.7 billion
1971	2.02 billion	33 million	29.3 billion
1970	963 million	–	22.1 billion
1969	1.37 billion	2 million	24.7 billion
1968	1.37 billion	–	22.4 billion
1967	1.13 billion	–	22.1 billion
1966	961 million	–	22.4 billion
1965	1 billion	–	23.1 billion
1964	794 million	0	24.2 billion
1963	695 million	–	18.1 billion
1962	402 million	–	15.5 billion
1961	1.15 billion	–	15 billion
1960	544 million	4 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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