Romania vs Sweden: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 132 million TIV in Romania and 235 million TIV in Sweden, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Sweden, by 103 million TIV, or 1.78 times that in Romania.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Sweden has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1971.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Romania	Sweden	World
2025	132 million	235 million	33.5 billion
2024	123 million	405 million	30.7 billion
2023	1 million	373 million	29.5 billion
2022	1 million	83 million	33.3 billion
2021	–	236 million	27.1 billion
2020	–	263 million	24.1 billion
2019	–	121 million	27 billion
2018	–	135 million	27.4 billion
2017	–	75 million	31.3 billion
2016	–	248 million	31.5 billion
2015	–	178 million	28.7 billion
2014	–	340 million	27.1 billion
2013	216 million	383 million	27.4 billion
2012	–	436 million	27.9 billion
2011	0	658 million	29.9 billion
2010	1 million	612 million	25.8 billion
2009	2 million	389 million	24.4 billion
2008	–	461 million	24.1 billion
2007	32 million	332 million	26.5 billion
2006	8 million	384 million	24.5 billion
2005	3 million	536 million	21.4 billion
2004	–	297 million	21.3 billion
2003	24 million	516 million	19.2 billion
2002	–	164 million	17.7 billion
2001	–	892 million	18.5 billion
2000	3 million	355 million	20.5 billion
1999	19 million	383 million	25.4 billion
1998	2 million	332 million	27.9 billion
1997	13 million	99 million	28.9 billion
1996	5 million	344 million	23.7 billion
1995	11 million	226 million	22.9 billion
1994	29 million	111 million	23 billion
1993	16 million	103 million	25.8 billion
1992	15 million	147 million	24.3 billion
1991	6 million	155 million	28.2 billion
1990	7 million	224 million	30.2 billion
1989	25 million	401 million	34.9 billion
1988	52 million	512 million	36.8 billion
1987	37 million	230 million	39.4 billion
1986	29 million	320 million	39 billion
1985	99 million	215 million	38.2 billion
1984	174 million	227 million	41.6 billion
1983	102 million	118 million	43.9 billion
1982	91 million	120 million	46.2 billion
1981	36 million	127 million	45.8 billion
1980	54 million	157 million	42.2 billion
1979	44 million	261 million	38.4 billion
1978	32 million	55 million	42.4 billion
1977	4 million	75 million	40 billion
1976	–	101 million	36 billion
1975	–	69 million	37.2 billion
1974	1 million	75 million	36.6 billion
1973	10 million	15 million	36.3 billion
1972	10 million	163 million	34.5 billion
1971	6 million	547 million	32.9 billion
1970	–	158 million	25.3 billion
1969	–	36 million	28.1 billion
1968	–	60 million	26.1 billion
1967	–	55 million	25.6 billion
1966	–	56 million	25.8 billion
1965	–	32 million	25.8 billion
1964	–	22 million	26.7 billion
1963	–	13 million	20.3 billion
1962	–	44 million	17.5 billion
1961	–	46 million	16.4 billion
1960	–	38 million	17.6 billion

Each country on its own

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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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