Italy vs United Arab Emirates: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 1.92 billion TIV in Italy and 33 million TIV in United Arab Emirates, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Italy, by 1.89 billion TIV, or 58 times that in United Arab Emirates.

Watch it change on the map

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Italy has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1974.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Italy	United Arab Emirates	World
2025	1.92 billion	33 million	33.5 billion
2024	1.21 billion	119 million	30.7 billion
2023	1.37 billion	64 million	29.5 billion
2022	1.71 billion	17 million	33.3 billion
2021	1.63 billion	57 million	27.1 billion
2020	821 million	209 million	24.1 billion
2019	372 million	131 million	27 billion
2018	535 million	120 million	27.4 billion
2017	703 million	106 million	31.3 billion
2016	616 million	111 million	31.5 billion
2015	671 million	143 million	28.7 billion
2014	688 million	100 million	27.1 billion
2013	884 million	115 million	27.4 billion
2012	789 million	75 million	27.9 billion
2011	964 million	3 million	29.9 billion
2010	577 million	39 million	25.8 billion
2009	512 million	34 million	24.4 billion
2008	433 million	–	24.1 billion
2007	700 million	3 million	26.5 billion
2006	538 million	17 million	24.5 billion
2005	832 million	15 million	21.4 billion
2004	261 million	3 million	21.3 billion
2003	359 million	–	19.2 billion
2002	474 million	–	17.7 billion
2001	267 million	–	18.5 billion
2000	205 million	–	20.5 billion
1999	516 million	–	25.4 billion
1998	423 million	–	27.9 billion
1997	447 million	37 million	28.9 billion
1996	287 million	6 million	23.7 billion
1995	301 million	28 million	22.9 billion
1994	208 million	–	23 billion
1993	342 million	–	25.8 billion
1992	249 million	–	24.3 billion
1991	354 million	–	28.2 billion
1990	200 million	2 million	30.2 billion
1989	316 million	–	34.9 billion
1988	389 million	–	36.8 billion
1987	626 million	2 million	39.4 billion
1986	223 million	22 million	39 billion
1985	868 million	–	38.2 billion
1984	1.23 billion	–	41.6 billion
1983	1.11 billion	14 million	43.9 billion
1982	1.67 billion	–	46.2 billion
1981	1.7 billion	–	45.8 billion
1980	1.16 billion	–	42.2 billion
1979	1.31 billion	–	38.4 billion
1978	665 million	–	42.4 billion
1977	505 million	–	40 billion
1976	523 million	–	36 billion
1975	520 million	–	37.2 billion
1974	409 million	8 million	36.6 billion
1973	328 million	–	36.3 billion
1972	284 million	–	34.5 billion
1971	383 million	–	32.9 billion
1970	280 million	–	25.3 billion
1969	325 million	–	28.1 billion
1968	197 million	–	26.1 billion
1967	144 million	–	25.6 billion
1966	243 million	–	25.8 billion
1965	296 million	–	25.8 billion
1964	385 million	–	26.7 billion
1963	241 million	–	20.3 billion
1962	262 million	–	17.5 billion
1961	246 million	–	16.4 billion
1960	105 million	–	17.6 billion

Each country on its own

Good to know

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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