Laos vs Thailand: Arms imports

Arms imports: 7 million TIV in Laos in 2024 and 33 million TIV in Thailand in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Thailand, by 66 million TIV, or 10 times that in Laos.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Thailand has been higher since 1978, when it overtook Laos.
The world as a whole: 30.6 billion TIV in 2024.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Laos	Thailand	World
2025	–	33 million	33.3 billion
2024	7 million	73 million	30.6 billion
2023	3 million	290 million	29.5 billion
2022	–	271 million	33 billion
2021	3 million	151 million	26.8 billion
2020	17 million	141 million	23.4 billion
2019	27 million	293 million	26.9 billion
2018	136 million	636 million	27.3 billion
2017	2 million	317 million	31.2 billion
2016	–	346 million	31.4 billion
2015	7 million	184 million	28.7 billion
2014	–	107 million	27 billion
2013	19 million	383 million	27.4 billion
2012	19 million	278 million	27.9 billion
2011	15 million	252 million	29.9 billion
2010	–	60 million	25.8 billion
2009	26 million	63 million	24 billion
2008	7 million	16 million	24.1 billion
2007	–	8 million	26.5 billion
2006	–	99 million	24.4 billion
2005	4 million	115 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	138 million	21.3 billion
2003	0	131 million	19.2 billion
2002	–	152 million	17.7 billion
2001	–	109 million	18.3 billion
2000	7 million	77 million	20.5 billion
1999	30 million	160 million	25.3 billion
1998	22 million	62 million	27.9 billion
1997	43 million	910 million	28.9 billion
1996	–	741 million	23.7 billion
1995	–	530 million	22.9 billion
1994	–	608 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	182 million	25.8 billion
1992	–	429 million	24.3 billion
1991	–	575 million	27.8 billion
1990	8 million	235 million	28.6 billion
1989	–	284 million	31.7 billion
1988	18 million	623 million	32.9 billion
1987	29 million	539 million	36.2 billion
1986	–	162 million	35.5 billion
1985	59 million	185 million	33.2 billion
1984	26 million	360 million	36.8 billion
1983	94 million	247 million	39.1 billion
1982	1 million	81 million	41.4 billion
1981	54 million	350 million	42 billion
1980	35 million	318 million	37.4 billion
1979	–	326 million	33.3 billion
1978	26 million	192 million	39.2 billion
1977	134 million	111 million	37 billion
1976	21 million	154 million	33 billion
1975	37 million	90 million	34.2 billion
1974	1 million	114 million	32.9 billion
1973	44 million	321 million	32.6 billion
1972	14 million	147 million	28.7 billion
1971	17 million	243 million	29.3 billion
1970	23 million	258 million	22.1 billion
1969	10 million	121 million	24.7 billion
1968	4 million	88 million	22.4 billion
1967	14 million	140 million	22.1 billion
1966	14 million	58 million	22.4 billion
1965	7 million	87 million	23.1 billion
1964	7 million	84 million	24.2 billion
1963	15 million	111 million	18.1 billion
1962	19 million	113 million	15.5 billion
1961	4 million	52 million	15 billion
1960	3 million	28 million	15.7 billion

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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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