Japan vs Sudan
Japan vs Sudan: Arms exports
Arms exports: 28 million TIV in Japan in 2025 and 11 million TIV in Sudan in 2013, by SIPRI estimates. In 1986 the value was higher in Japan, by 88 million TIV, or 23 times that in Sudan.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Japan has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1986.
- The world as a whole: 39 billion TIV in 1986.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Japan | Sudan | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 million | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 21 million | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 13 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | – | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | – | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | – | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | – | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 3 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 2 million | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | – | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | – | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | – | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | – | 11 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | – | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | – | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | – | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | – | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 40 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | – | – | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | – | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | – | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | – | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | – | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 25 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 165 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 126 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 130 million | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 122 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 101 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 54 million | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 30 million | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 15 million | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | – | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | – | – | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 92 million | 4 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 44 million | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 17 million | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 17 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | – | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | – | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 167 million | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 11 million | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 9 million | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | – | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | – | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 55 million | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | 36 million | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | 9 million | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 15 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | – | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 31 million | – | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | – | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | – | 1 million | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 5 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 14 million | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 8 million | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 100 million | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 61 million | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 1 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Japan vs Sudan
Health
- Life expectancyJapan: 84.7 years in 2023Sudan: 66.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityJapan: 0.2 per 100 live births in 2024Sudan: 6.2 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityJapan: 1.6 per 1,000 live births in 2023Sudan: 36.2 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionJapan: 3.34% in 2017Sudan: 3.78% in 2017
- Suicide rateJapan: 15.7 per 100,000 people in 2017Sudan: 5 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationJapan: 124 million people in 2023Sudan: 50 million people in 2023
- Population growthJapan: -0.48% a year in 2023Sudan: 0.02% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateJapan: 1.21 births per woman in 2023Sudan: 4.32 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationJapan: 92.3% in 2025Sudan: 34.9% in 2025
- Median ageJapan: 49 years in 2023Sudan: 18.3 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overJapan: 29.6% in 2023Sudan: 3.2% in 2023
- Net migration rateJapan: 1.4 per 1,000 people in 2023Sudan: -27 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingJapan: 1.41% of GDP in 2025Sudan: 0.93% of GDP in 2021
- Military spending in US dollarsJapan: $59.5B in 2025Sudan: $2.77B in 2021
- Military spending per personJapan: $504 in 2025Sudan: $8 in 2021
- Military share of state spendingJapan: 3.8% of government spending in 2025Sudan: 9.5% of government spending in 2021
- Armed forces personnelJapan: 261,000 people in 2020Sudan: 144,000 people in 2020
- National powerJapan: 2.47% of world capability in 2022Sudan: 0.37% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersJapan: 0.38% of the labour force in 2020Sudan: 1.34% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsJapan: 1.72 billion TIV in 2025Sudan: 57 million TIV in 2025