Jordan vs Yemen
Jordan vs Yemen: Arms imports
Arms imports: 34 million TIV in Jordan in 2024 and 1 million TIV in Yemen in 2022, by SIPRI estimates. In 2022 the value was higher in Jordan, by 49 million TIV, or 50 times that in Yemen.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Jordan has been higher since 2011, when it overtook Yemen.
- The world as a whole: 33 billion TIV in 2022.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Jordan | Yemen | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 34 million | – | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 22 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 50 million | 1 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 67 million | – | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 148 million | – | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 213 million | – | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 170 million | 9 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 363 million | 6 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 243 million | 7 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 228 million | 33 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 194 million | 6 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 72 million | 23 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 185 million | 38 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 211 million | 47 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 87 million | 261 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 230 million | 5 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 157 million | 41 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 180 million | 66 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 50 million | 38 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 79 million | 316 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 168 million | 253 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 281 million | 58 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 132 million | 585 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 160 million | 70 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 139 million | 158 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 63 million | 52 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 248 million | 1 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 77 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 75 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 19 million | 167 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 5 million | 4 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 1 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 24 million | 113 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 16 million | 78 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 74 million | – | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 243 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 133 million | – | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 206 million | – | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 292 million | – | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 629 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 634 million | – | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 1.06 billion | – | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 401 million | – | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 359 million | – | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 256 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 576 million | – | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 457 million | – | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 383 million | – | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 372 million | – | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 132 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 56 million | – | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 87 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 90 million | – | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 147 million | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 173 million | – | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 48 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 126 million | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 95 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 56 million | – | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 33 million | – | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 39 million | – | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 66 million | – | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 26 million | – | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 53 million | – | 15.7 billion |
Each country on its own
Good to know
- 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.
- 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 exportsJordan: 226 million TIV in 2024Yemen: 51 million TIV in 1986