Spain vs Thailand
Spain vs Thailand: Arms exports
Arms exports: 341 million TIV in Spain in 2025 and 15 million TIV in Thailand in 2024, by SIPRI estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Spain, by 591 million TIV, or 40 times that in Thailand.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Spain has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2003.
- The world as a whole: 30.7 billion TIV in 2024.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Spain | Thailand | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 341 million | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 606 million | 15 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 912 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 1.01 billion | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 676 million | 5 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 1.01 billion | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 318 million | 2 million | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 705 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 820 million | 4 million | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 481 million | 2 million | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 982 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 962 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 450 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 266 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 997 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 273 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 984 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 626 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 628 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 898 million | 79 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 113 million | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 54 million | 7 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 99 million | 7 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 18 million | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 8 million | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 47 million | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 46 million | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 174 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 605 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 112 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 88 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 253 million | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 103 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 70 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 103 million | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 116 million | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 167 million | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 136 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 152 million | – | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 197 million | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 92 million | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 244 million | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 367 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 263 million | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 135 million | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 10 million | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 18 million | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 38 million | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 25 million | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | 46 million | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 272 million | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 82 million | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | 18 million | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | 18 million | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 140 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | 70 million | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 10 million | – | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | 12 million | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | 12 million | – | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 26 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | 33 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 12 million | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 10 million | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 10 million | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 8 million | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 2 million | – | 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Spain vs Thailand
Health
- Life expectancySpain: 83.7 years in 2023Thailand: 76.4 years in 2023
- Child mortalitySpain: 0.3 per 100 live births in 2024Thailand: 0.9 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalitySpain: 2.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023Thailand: 6.2 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionSpain: 3.54% in 2017Thailand: 3.09% in 2017
- Suicide rateSpain: 5.5 per 100,000 people in 2017Thailand: 10.4 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationSpain: 47.9 million people in 2023Thailand: 71.7 million people in 2023
- Population growthSpain: 0.02% a year in 2023Thailand: -0.04% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateSpain: 1.21 births per woman in 2023Thailand: 1.21 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationSpain: 80.5% in 2025Thailand: 62.8% in 2025
- Median ageSpain: 44.9 years in 2023Thailand: 39.7 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overSpain: 20.7% in 2023Thailand: 14.7% in 2023
- Net migration rateSpain: 2.5 per 1,000 people in 2023Thailand: 0.3 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingSpain: 2.13% of GDP in 2025Thailand: 1.04% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsSpain: $37.7B in 2025Thailand: $5.57B in 2025
- Military spending per personSpain: $839 in 2025Thailand: $84 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingSpain: 4.7% of government spending in 2025Thailand: 4.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelSpain: 199,000 people in 2020Thailand: 455,000 people in 2020
- National powerSpain: 0.66% of world capability in 2022Thailand: 0.79% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersSpain: 0.87% of the labour force in 2020Thailand: 1.13% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsSpain: 237 million TIV in 2025Thailand: 33 million TIV in 2025