Oman vs Yemen
Oman vs Yemen: Arms imports
Arms imports: 4 million TIV in Oman in 2023 and 1 million TIV in Yemen in 2022, by SIPRI estimates. In 2022 the value was higher in Oman, by 3 million TIV, or 4 times that in Yemen.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Oman has been higher since 2012, when it overtook Yemen.
- The world as a whole: 33 billion TIV in 2022.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Oman | Yemen | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | – | – | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 4 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 4 million | 1 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 4 million | – | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 85 million | – | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 88 million | – | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 282 million | 9 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 757 million | 6 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 422 million | 7 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 152 million | 33 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 719 million | 6 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 492 million | 23 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 127 million | 38 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 21 million | 47 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 31 million | 261 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 95 million | 5 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 72 million | 41 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 12 million | 66 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 297 million | 38 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 178 million | 316 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 49 million | 253 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 37 million | 58 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 40 million | 585 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 32 million | 70 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 121 million | 158 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | 52 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 22 million | 1 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 157 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 285 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 278 million | 167 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 145 million | 4 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 55 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | 113 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 60 million | 78 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 117 million | – | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 19 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 40 million | – | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 49 million | – | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 88 million | – | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 120 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 347 million | – | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 170 million | – | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 72 million | – | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 12 million | – | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 43 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 81 million | – | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 250 million | – | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 150 million | – | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 181 million | – | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 67 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 71 million | – | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 11 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 62 million | – | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 26 million | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 36 million | – | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 5 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 7 million | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 2 million | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 1 million | – | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 1 million | – | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 1 million | – | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | – | – | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | – | – | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 1 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
Oman vs Yemen
Health
- Life expectancyOman: 80 years in 2023Yemen: 69.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityOman: 1 per 100 live births in 2024Yemen: 3.8 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityOman: 8.6 per 1,000 live births in 2023Yemen: 32.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionOman: 3.43% in 2017Yemen: 4.01% in 2017
- Suicide rateOman: 2.9 per 100,000 people in 2017Yemen: 6 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationOman: 5.05 million people in 2023Yemen: 39.4 million people in 2023
- Population growthOman: 4.59% a year in 2023Yemen: 3.03% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateOman: 2.53 births per woman in 2023Yemen: 4.59 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationOman: 79.5% in 2025Yemen: 37% in 2025
- Median ageOman: 29.3 years in 2023Yemen: 18.2 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overOman: 2.7% in 2023Yemen: 2.5% in 2023
- Net migration rateOman: 31 per 1,000 people in 2023Yemen: -0.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingOman: 5.68% of GDP in 2025Yemen: 3.97% of GDP in 2014
- Military spending in US dollarsOman: $5.94B in 2025Yemen: $12.3B in 2014
- Military spending per personOman: $1,109 in 2025Yemen: $58 in 2014
- Military share of state spendingOman: 20% of government spending in 2025Yemen: 14.3% of government spending in 2014
- Armed forces personnelOman: 47,000 people in 2020Yemen: 40,000 people in 2020
- National powerOman: 0.17% of world capability in 2022Yemen: 0.24% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersOman: 2.12% of the labour force in 2020Yemen: 0.58% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exportsOman: 7 million TIV in 2017Yemen: 51 million TIV in 1986