South Korea vs Vietnam

South Korea vs Vietnam: Arms exports

Arms exports: 2.02 billion TIV in South Korea in 2025 and 10 million TIV in Vietnam in 2018, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in South Korea, by 1.04 billion TIV, or 110 times that in Vietnam.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

South Korea vs Vietnam: Arms exportsArms exports: 2.02 billion TIV in South Korea in 2025 and 10 million TIV in Vietnam in 2018, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in South Korea, by 1.04 billion TIV, or 110 times that in Vietnam.
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What the numbers say

  • South Korea has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1972.
  • The world as a whole: 27.4 billion TIV in 2018.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

YearSouth KoreaVietnamWorld
20252.02 billion–33.5 billion
20241.1 billion–30.7 billion
2023675 million–29.5 billion
2022231 million–33.3 billion
2021536 million–27.1 billion
2020829 million–24.1 billion
2019675 million–27 billion
20181.05 billion10 million27.4 billion
2017700 million–31.3 billion
2016435 million–31.5 billion
201592 million–28.7 billion
2014218 million–27.1 billion
2013350 million–27.4 billion
2012203 million–27.9 billion
2011328 million–29.9 billion
2010177 million–25.8 billion
2009224 million–24.4 billion
2008110 million–24.1 billion
2007278 million–26.5 billion
2006158 million14 million24.5 billion
2005109 million–21.4 billion
200474 million–21.3 billion
200396 million–19.2 billion
2002––17.7 billion
2001230 million–18.5 billion
200036 million–20.5 billion
1999––25.4 billion
199832 million–27.9 billion
199725 million–28.9 billion
199624 million–23.7 billion
199530 million–22.9 billion
19947 million–23 billion
199362 million–25.8 billion
1992––24.3 billion
1991118 million–28.2 billion
199072 million–30.2 billion
198948 million–34.9 billion
198854 million–36.8 billion
1987–11 million39.4 billion
198673 million–39 billion
198528 million–38.2 billion
1984126 million–41.6 billion
1983––43.9 billion
198265 million–46.2 billion
1981130 million–45.8 billion
1980105 million–42.2 billion
1979105 million–38.4 billion
1978––42.4 billion
1977––40 billion
1976––36 billion
1975––37.2 billion
1974––36.6 billion
1973––36.3 billion
1972141 million034.5 billion
1971––32.9 billion
1970––25.3 billion
1969––28.1 billion
1968––26.1 billion
1967––25.6 billion
1966––25.8 billion
1965––25.8 billion
1964––26.7 billion
1963––20.3 billion
1962––17.5 billion
1961––16.4 billion
1960––17.6 billion

Each country on its own

Good to know

  • 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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