India vs Sweden: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 2.86 billion TIV in India and 146 million TIV in Sweden, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in India, by 2.72 billion TIV, or 20 times that in Sweden.

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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	Sweden	World
2025	2.86 billion	146 million	33.3 billion
2024	1.6 billion	56 million	30.6 billion
2023	1.54 billion	98 million	29.5 billion
2022	2.7 billion	318 million	33 billion
2021	3.96 billion	110 million	26.8 billion
2020	2.67 billion	3 million	23.4 billion
2019	3.2 billion	7 million	26.9 billion
2018	1.98 billion	7 million	27.3 billion
2017	2.68 billion	32 million	31.2 billion
2016	2.65 billion	70 million	31.4 billion
2015	2.73 billion	24 million	28.7 billion
2014	3.28 billion	48 million	27 billion
2013	5.3 billion	58 million	27.4 billion
2012	4.51 billion	202 million	27.9 billion
2011	3.63 billion	185 million	29.9 billion
2010	2.9 billion	–	25.8 billion
2009	1.96 billion	15 million	24 billion
2008	1.64 billion	52 million	24.1 billion
2007	2.3 billion	51 million	26.5 billion
2006	1.49 billion	121 million	24.4 billion
2005	1.2 billion	78 million	21.3 billion
2004	2.25 billion	47 million	21.3 billion
2003	2.8 billion	66 million	19.2 billion
2002	1.9 billion	74 million	17.7 billion
2001	1.05 billion	165 million	18.3 billion
2000	988 million	196 million	20.5 billion
1999	1.22 billion	224 million	25.3 billion
1998	797 million	294 million	27.9 billion
1997	1.68 billion	196 million	28.9 billion
1996	831 million	98 million	23.7 billion
1995	1.36 billion	106 million	22.9 billion
1994	873 million	307 million	22.8 billion
1993	737 million	46 million	25.8 billion
1992	1.19 billion	60 million	24.3 billion
1991	1.88 billion	55 million	27.8 billion
1990	2.83 billion	94 million	28.6 billion
1989	3.68 billion	127 million	31.7 billion
1988	3.85 billion	152 million	32.9 billion
1987	3.92 billion	125 million	36.2 billion
1986	4.24 billion	118 million	35.5 billion
1985	3 billion	84 million	33.2 billion
1984	2.43 billion	108 million	36.8 billion
1983	2.64 billion	106 million	39.1 billion
1982	2.65 billion	153 million	41.4 billion
1981	2.12 billion	495 million	42 billion
1980	1.77 billion	291 million	37.4 billion
1979	1.2 billion	233 million	33.3 billion
1978	1.2 billion	229 million	39.2 billion
1977	2.38 billion	114 million	37 billion
1976	1.94 billion	214 million	33 billion
1975	1.53 billion	292 million	34.2 billion
1974	1.33 billion	256 million	32.9 billion
1973	1.51 billion	231 million	32.6 billion
1972	2.09 billion	196 million	28.7 billion
1971	2.02 billion	160 million	29.3 billion
1970	963 million	137 million	22.1 billion
1969	1.37 billion	172 million	24.7 billion
1968	1.37 billion	189 million	22.4 billion
1967	1.13 billion	318 million	22.1 billion
1966	961 million	299 million	22.4 billion
1965	1 billion	324 million	23.1 billion
1964	794 million	400 million	24.2 billion
1963	695 million	335 million	18.1 billion
1962	402 million	177 million	15.5 billion
1961	1.15 billion	165 million	15 billion
1960	544 million	227 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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