South Korea vs Sweden: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 2.02 billion TIV in South Korea and 235 million TIV in Sweden, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in South Korea, by 1.79 billion TIV, or 8.6 times that in Sweden.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

South Korea has been higher since 2016, when it overtook Sweden.
The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	South Korea	Sweden	World
2025	2.02 billion	235 million	33.5 billion
2024	1.1 billion	405 million	30.7 billion
2023	675 million	373 million	29.5 billion
2022	231 million	83 million	33.3 billion
2021	536 million	236 million	27.1 billion
2020	829 million	263 million	24.1 billion
2019	675 million	121 million	27 billion
2018	1.05 billion	135 million	27.4 billion
2017	700 million	75 million	31.3 billion
2016	435 million	248 million	31.5 billion
2015	92 million	178 million	28.7 billion
2014	218 million	340 million	27.1 billion
2013	350 million	383 million	27.4 billion
2012	203 million	436 million	27.9 billion
2011	328 million	658 million	29.9 billion
2010	177 million	612 million	25.8 billion
2009	224 million	389 million	24.4 billion
2008	110 million	461 million	24.1 billion
2007	278 million	332 million	26.5 billion
2006	158 million	384 million	24.5 billion
2005	109 million	536 million	21.4 billion
2004	74 million	297 million	21.3 billion
2003	96 million	516 million	19.2 billion
2002	–	164 million	17.7 billion
2001	230 million	892 million	18.5 billion
2000	36 million	355 million	20.5 billion
1999	–	383 million	25.4 billion
1998	32 million	332 million	27.9 billion
1997	25 million	99 million	28.9 billion
1996	24 million	344 million	23.7 billion
1995	30 million	226 million	22.9 billion
1994	7 million	111 million	23 billion
1993	62 million	103 million	25.8 billion
1992	–	147 million	24.3 billion
1991	118 million	155 million	28.2 billion
1990	72 million	224 million	30.2 billion
1989	48 million	401 million	34.9 billion
1988	54 million	512 million	36.8 billion
1987	–	230 million	39.4 billion
1986	73 million	320 million	39 billion
1985	28 million	215 million	38.2 billion
1984	126 million	227 million	41.6 billion
1983	–	118 million	43.9 billion
1982	65 million	120 million	46.2 billion
1981	130 million	127 million	45.8 billion
1980	105 million	157 million	42.2 billion
1979	105 million	261 million	38.4 billion
1978	–	55 million	42.4 billion
1977	–	75 million	40 billion
1976	–	101 million	36 billion
1975	–	69 million	37.2 billion
1974	–	75 million	36.6 billion
1973	–	15 million	36.3 billion
1972	141 million	163 million	34.5 billion
1971	–	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

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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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