Iran vs United Kingdom: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 80 million TIV in Iran and 702 million TIV in United Kingdom, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in United Kingdom, by 622 million TIV, or 8.78 times that in Iran.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

United Kingdom has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1962.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Iran	United Kingdom	World
2025	80 million	702 million	33.5 billion
2024	106 million	884 million	30.7 billion
2023	170 million	1.32 billion	29.5 billion
2022	48 million	1.74 billion	33.3 billion
2021	2 million	639 million	27.1 billion
2020	16 million	652 million	24.1 billion
2019	9 million	886 million	27 billion
2018	9 million	682 million	27.4 billion
2017	24 million	1.1 billion	31.3 billion
2016	24 million	1.34 billion	31.5 billion
2015	11 million	1.18 billion	28.7 billion
2014	34 million	1.66 billion	27.1 billion
2013	2 million	1.51 billion	27.4 billion
2012	35 million	813 million	27.9 billion
2011	77 million	1 billion	29.9 billion
2010	54 million	1.15 billion	25.8 billion
2009	99 million	1.07 billion	24.4 billion
2008	82 million	931 million	24.1 billion
2007	2 million	924 million	26.5 billion
2006	78 million	957 million	24.5 billion
2005	4 million	990 million	21.4 billion
2004	3 million	1.23 billion	21.3 billion
2003	12 million	769 million	19.2 billion
2002	9 million	1.08 billion	17.7 billion
2001	0	1.35 billion	18.5 billion
2000	0	1.62 billion	20.5 billion
1999	0	1.32 billion	25.4 billion
1998	0	1.4 billion	27.9 billion
1997	0	2.36 billion	28.9 billion
1996	3 million	1.62 billion	23.7 billion
1995	1 million	1.46 billion	22.9 billion
1994	0	1.53 billion	23 billion
1993	1 million	1.38 billion	25.8 billion
1992	1 million	1.09 billion	24.3 billion
1991	1 million	1.53 billion	28.2 billion
1990	0	1.84 billion	30.2 billion
1989	1 million	3.5 billion	34.9 billion
1988	1 million	2.53 billion	36.8 billion
1987	1 million	3.6 billion	39.4 billion
1986	1 million	1.99 billion	39 billion
1985	1 million	2.14 billion	38.2 billion
1984	1 million	2.53 billion	41.6 billion
1983	1 million	2.54 billion	43.9 billion
1982	1 million	2.52 billion	46.2 billion
1981	1 million	2.36 billion	45.8 billion
1980	1 million	1.57 billion	42.2 billion
1979	–	1.54 billion	38.4 billion
1978	–	2.21 billion	42.4 billion
1977	–	2.2 billion	40 billion
1976	–	2.52 billion	36 billion
1975	86 million	2.23 billion	37.2 billion
1974	129 million	2.25 billion	36.6 billion
1973	6 million	2.79 billion	36.3 billion
1972	106 million	2.68 billion	34.5 billion
1971	6 million	2.35 billion	32.9 billion
1970	23 million	982 million	25.3 billion
1969	–	1.62 billion	28.1 billion
1968	–	1.68 billion	26.1 billion
1967	28 million	1.88 billion	25.6 billion
1966	–	1.42 billion	25.8 billion
1965	–	1.5 billion	25.8 billion
1964	–	1.41 billion	26.7 billion
1963	–	1.24 billion	20.3 billion
1962	3 million	1.07 billion	17.5 billion
1961	–	1.4 billion	16.4 billion
1960	–	2.19 billion	17.6 billion

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Major weapons the country sent abroad, 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.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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