Jordan vs Yemen
Jordan vs Yemen: Arms exports
Arms exports: 226 million TIV in Jordan in 2024 and 51 million TIV in Yemen in 1986, by SIPRI estimates. In 1986 the value was higher in Yemen, by 44 million TIV, or 7.29 times that in Jordan.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Yemen has been higher since 1985, when it overtook Jordan.
- The world as a whole: 39 billion TIV in 1986.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Jordan | Yemen | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 226 million | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 11 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 53 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 74 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 66 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 109 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 2 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 80 million | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 18 million | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 16 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 114 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 35 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 21 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | – | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 117 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 28 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 13 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 13 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | – | – | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 22 million | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 19 million | – | 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 | 6 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | – | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 65 million | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | – | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 64 million | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 7 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | – | – | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 7 million | 51 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 2 million | 3 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | – | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 76 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 1 million | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | – | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | – | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | – | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | – | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 18 million | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 50 million | 6 million | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 23 million | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | 22 million | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 36 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | – | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | – | – | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | – | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | – | – | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | – | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | – | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | – | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | – | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | – | – | 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
Jordan vs Yemen
Health
- Life expectancyJordan: 77.8 years in 2023Yemen: 69.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityJordan: 1.3 per 100 live births in 2024Yemen: 3.8 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityJordan: 11.8 per 1,000 live births in 2023Yemen: 32.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionJordan: 3.56% in 2017Yemen: 4.01% in 2017
- Suicide rateJordan: 3.2 per 100,000 people in 2017Yemen: 6 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationJordan: 11.4 million people in 2023Yemen: 39.4 million people in 2023
- Population growthJordan: 1.6% a year in 2023Yemen: 3.03% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateJordan: 2.64 births per woman in 2023Yemen: 4.59 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationJordan: 93.2% in 2025Yemen: 37% in 2025
- Median ageJordan: 24.3 years in 2023Yemen: 18.2 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overJordan: 4.3% in 2023Yemen: 2.5% in 2023
- Net migration rateJordan: -1.5 per 1,000 people in 2023Yemen: -0.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingJordan: 4.56% of GDP in 2025Yemen: 3.97% of GDP in 2014
- Military spending in US dollarsJordan: $2.5B in 2025Yemen: $12.3B in 2014
- Military spending per personJordan: $221 in 2025Yemen: $58 in 2014
- Military share of state spendingJordan: 13.5% of government spending in 2025Yemen: 14.3% of government spending in 2014
- Armed forces personnelJordan: 116,000 people in 2020Yemen: 40,000 people in 2020
- National powerJordan: 0.17% of world capability in 2022Yemen: 0.24% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersJordan: 3.98% of the labour force in 2020Yemen: 0.58% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsJordan: 34 million TIV in 2024Yemen: 1 million TIV in 2022