Kenya vs Sweden: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 117 million TIV in Kenya and 146 million TIV in Sweden, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Sweden, by 29 million TIV, or 1.25 times that in Kenya.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Sweden has been higher since 2021, when it overtook Kenya.
The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Kenya	Sweden	World
2025	117 million	146 million	33.3 billion
2024	19 million	56 million	30.6 billion
2023	–	98 million	29.5 billion
2022	1 million	318 million	33 billion
2021	4 million	110 million	26.8 billion
2020	71 million	3 million	23.4 billion
2019	18 million	7 million	26.9 billion
2018	7 million	7 million	27.3 billion
2017	17 million	32 million	31.2 billion
2016	32 million	70 million	31.4 billion
2015	30 million	24 million	28.7 billion
2014	17 million	48 million	27 billion
2013	1 million	58 million	27.4 billion
2012	68 million	202 million	27.9 billion
2011	35 million	185 million	29.9 billion
2010	96 million	–	25.8 billion
2009	34 million	15 million	24 billion
2008	–	52 million	24.1 billion
2007	11 million	51 million	26.5 billion
2006	–	121 million	24.4 billion
2005	–	78 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	47 million	21.3 billion
2003	–	66 million	19.2 billion
2002	–	74 million	17.7 billion
2001	–	165 million	18.3 billion
2000	15 million	196 million	20.5 billion
1999	–	224 million	25.3 billion
1998	–	294 million	27.9 billion
1997	61 million	196 million	28.9 billion
1996	–	98 million	23.7 billion
1995	–	106 million	22.9 billion
1994	30 million	307 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	46 million	25.8 billion
1992	–	60 million	24.3 billion
1991	14 million	55 million	27.8 billion
1990	43 million	94 million	28.6 billion
1989	47 million	127 million	31.7 billion
1988	–	152 million	32.9 billion
1987	178 million	125 million	36.2 billion
1986	26 million	118 million	35.5 billion
1985	6 million	84 million	33.2 billion
1984	12 million	108 million	36.8 billion
1983	17 million	106 million	39.1 billion
1982	85 million	153 million	41.4 billion
1981	144 million	495 million	42 billion
1980	119 million	291 million	37.4 billion
1979	56 million	233 million	33.3 billion
1978	211 million	229 million	39.2 billion
1977	58 million	114 million	37 billion
1976	17 million	214 million	33 billion
1975	25 million	292 million	34.2 billion
1974	28 million	256 million	32.9 billion
1973	2 million	231 million	32.6 billion
1972	9 million	196 million	28.7 billion
1971	26 million	160 million	29.3 billion
1970	0	137 million	22.1 billion
1969	3 million	172 million	24.7 billion
1968	2 million	189 million	22.4 billion
1967	2 million	318 million	22.1 billion
1966	19 million	299 million	22.4 billion
1965	15 million	324 million	23.1 billion
1964	6 million	400 million	24.2 billion
1963	–	335 million	18.1 billion
1962	–	177 million	15.5 billion
1961	–	165 million	15 billion
1960	–	227 million	15.7 billion

Each country on its own

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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.
Ranks count the 110 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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