Poland vs United Kingdom: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 59 million TIV in Poland and 702 million TIV in United Kingdom, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in United Kingdom, by 643 million TIV, or 12 times that in Poland.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

United Kingdom has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1960.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Poland	United Kingdom	World
2025	59 million	702 million	33.5 billion
2024	145 million	884 million	30.7 billion
2023	576 million	1.32 billion	29.5 billion
2022	707 million	1.74 billion	33.3 billion
2021	3 million	639 million	27.1 billion
2020	0	652 million	24.1 billion
2019	10 million	886 million	27 billion
2018	11 million	682 million	27.4 billion
2017	8 million	1.1 billion	31.3 billion
2016	5 million	1.34 billion	31.5 billion
2015	2 million	1.18 billion	28.7 billion
2014	33 million	1.66 billion	27.1 billion
2013	147 million	1.51 billion	27.4 billion
2012	31 million	813 million	27.9 billion
2011	8 million	1 billion	29.9 billion
2010	28 million	1.15 billion	25.8 billion
2009	75 million	1.07 billion	24.4 billion
2008	73 million	931 million	24.1 billion
2007	163 million	924 million	26.5 billion
2006	282 million	957 million	24.5 billion
2005	18 million	990 million	21.4 billion
2004	47 million	1.23 billion	21.3 billion
2003	83 million	769 million	19.2 billion
2002	56 million	1.08 billion	17.7 billion
2001	81 million	1.35 billion	18.5 billion
2000	47 million	1.62 billion	20.5 billion
1999	65 million	1.32 billion	25.4 billion
1998	1 million	1.4 billion	27.9 billion
1997	23 million	2.36 billion	28.9 billion
1996	57 million	1.62 billion	23.7 billion
1995	179 million	1.46 billion	22.9 billion
1994	133 million	1.53 billion	23 billion
1993	–	1.38 billion	25.8 billion
1992	57 million	1.09 billion	24.3 billion
1991	62 million	1.53 billion	28.2 billion
1990	112 million	1.84 billion	30.2 billion
1989	20 million	3.5 billion	34.9 billion
1988	232 million	2.53 billion	36.8 billion
1987	222 million	3.6 billion	39.4 billion
1986	265 million	1.99 billion	39 billion
1985	131 million	2.14 billion	38.2 billion
1984	91 million	2.53 billion	41.6 billion
1983	134 million	2.54 billion	43.9 billion
1982	230 million	2.52 billion	46.2 billion
1981	365 million	2.36 billion	45.8 billion
1980	226 million	1.57 billion	42.2 billion
1979	247 million	1.54 billion	38.4 billion
1978	336 million	2.21 billion	42.4 billion
1977	400 million	2.2 billion	40 billion
1976	425 million	2.52 billion	36 billion
1975	316 million	2.23 billion	37.2 billion
1974	249 million	2.25 billion	36.6 billion
1973	158 million	2.79 billion	36.3 billion
1972	276 million	2.68 billion	34.5 billion
1971	278 million	2.35 billion	32.9 billion
1970	268 million	982 million	25.3 billion
1969	323 million	1.62 billion	28.1 billion
1968	288 million	1.68 billion	26.1 billion
1967	309 million	1.88 billion	25.6 billion
1966	319 million	1.42 billion	25.8 billion
1965	234 million	1.5 billion	25.8 billion
1964	237 million	1.41 billion	26.7 billion
1963	111 million	1.24 billion	20.3 billion
1962	7 million	1.07 billion	17.5 billion
1961	–	1.4 billion	16.4 billion
1960	0	2.19 billion	17.6 billion

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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.

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