India vs Sudan: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 2.86 billion TIV in India and 57 million TIV in Sudan, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in India, by 2.81 billion TIV, or 50 times that in Sudan.

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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	Sudan	World
2025	2.86 billion	57 million	33.3 billion
2024	1.6 billion	50 million	30.6 billion
2023	1.54 billion	6 million	29.5 billion
2022	2.7 billion	3 million	33 billion
2021	3.96 billion	–	26.8 billion
2020	2.67 billion	–	23.4 billion
2019	3.2 billion	20 million	26.9 billion
2018	1.98 billion	35 million	27.3 billion
2017	2.68 billion	66 million	31.2 billion
2016	2.65 billion	110 million	31.4 billion
2015	2.73 billion	136 million	28.7 billion
2014	3.28 billion	70 million	27 billion
2013	5.3 billion	155 million	27.4 billion
2012	4.51 billion	119 million	27.9 billion
2011	3.63 billion	191 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.9 billion	196 million	25.8 billion
2009	1.96 billion	100 million	24 billion
2008	1.64 billion	120 million	24.1 billion
2007	2.3 billion	58 million	26.5 billion
2006	1.49 billion	112 million	24.4 billion
2005	1.2 billion	113 million	21.3 billion
2004	2.25 billion	294 million	21.3 billion
2003	2.8 billion	205 million	19.2 billion
2002	1.9 billion	50 million	17.7 billion
2001	1.05 billion	106 million	18.3 billion
2000	988 million	–	20.5 billion
1999	1.22 billion	36 million	25.3 billion
1998	797 million	–	27.9 billion
1997	1.68 billion	63 million	28.9 billion
1996	831 million	27 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.36 billion	3 million	22.9 billion
1994	873 million	–	22.8 billion
1993	737 million	–	25.8 billion
1992	1.19 billion	6 million	24.3 billion
1991	1.88 billion	46 million	27.8 billion
1990	2.83 billion	4 million	28.6 billion
1989	3.68 billion	16 million	31.7 billion
1988	3.85 billion	77 million	32.9 billion
1987	3.92 billion	122 million	36.2 billion
1986	4.24 billion	10 million	35.5 billion
1985	3 billion	66 million	33.2 billion
1984	2.43 billion	106 million	36.8 billion
1983	2.64 billion	25 million	39.1 billion
1982	2.65 billion	90 million	41.4 billion
1981	2.12 billion	203 million	42 billion
1980	1.77 billion	3 million	37.4 billion
1979	1.2 billion	46 million	33.3 billion
1978	1.2 billion	208 million	39.2 billion
1977	2.38 billion	29 million	37 billion
1976	1.94 billion	–	33 billion
1975	1.53 billion	5 million	34.2 billion
1974	1.33 billion	3 million	32.9 billion
1973	1.51 billion	23 million	32.6 billion
1972	2.09 billion	69 million	28.7 billion
1971	2.02 billion	87 million	29.3 billion
1970	963 million	598 million	22.1 billion
1969	1.37 billion	177 million	24.7 billion
1968	1.37 billion	13 million	22.4 billion
1967	1.13 billion	6 million	22.1 billion
1966	961 million	10 million	22.4 billion
1965	1 billion	5 million	23.1 billion
1964	794 million	36 million	24.2 billion
1963	695 million	17 million	18.1 billion
1962	402 million	34 million	15.5 billion
1961	1.15 billion	17 million	15 billion
1960	544 million	6 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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