Tanzania vs Thailand: Arms imports

Arms imports in 2025: 4 million TIV in Tanzania and 33 million TIV in Thailand, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Thailand, by 29 million TIV, or 8.25 times that in Tanzania.

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

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What the numbers say

Thailand has been higher since 1975, when it overtook Tanzania.
The world as a whole: 33.3 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Tanzania	Thailand	World
2025	4 million	33 million	33.3 billion
2024	–	73 million	30.6 billion
2023	–	290 million	29.5 billion
2022	–	271 million	33 billion
2021	53 million	151 million	26.8 billion
2020	9 million	141 million	23.4 billion
2019	–	293 million	26.9 billion
2018	17 million	636 million	27.3 billion
2017	2 million	317 million	31.2 billion
2016	20 million	346 million	31.4 billion
2015	20 million	184 million	28.7 billion
2014	14 million	107 million	27 billion
2013	130 million	383 million	27.4 billion
2012	115 million	278 million	27.9 billion
2011	78 million	252 million	29.9 billion
2010	–	60 million	25.8 billion
2009	29 million	63 million	24 billion
2008	–	16 million	24.1 billion
2007	1 million	8 million	26.5 billion
2006	12 million	99 million	24.4 billion
2005	10 million	115 million	21.3 billion
2004	–	138 million	21.3 billion
2003	51 million	131 million	19.2 billion
2002	1 million	152 million	17.7 billion
2001	–	109 million	18.3 billion
2000	2 million	77 million	20.5 billion
1999	–	160 million	25.3 billion
1998	–	62 million	27.9 billion
1997	–	910 million	28.9 billion
1996	4 million	741 million	23.7 billion
1995	–	530 million	22.9 billion
1994	5 million	608 million	22.8 billion
1993	–	182 million	25.8 billion
1992	18 million	429 million	24.3 billion
1991	–	575 million	27.8 billion
1990	–	235 million	28.6 billion
1989	5 million	284 million	31.7 billion
1988	–	623 million	32.9 billion
1987	–	539 million	36.2 billion
1986	1 million	162 million	35.5 billion
1985	–	185 million	33.2 billion
1984	–	360 million	36.8 billion
1983	–	247 million	39.1 billion
1982	9 million	81 million	41.4 billion
1981	121 million	350 million	42 billion
1980	53 million	318 million	37.4 billion
1979	260 million	326 million	33.3 billion
1978	67 million	192 million	39.2 billion
1977	47 million	111 million	37 billion
1976	–	154 million	33 billion
1975	48 million	90 million	34.2 billion
1974	185 million	114 million	32.9 billion
1973	121 million	321 million	32.6 billion
1972	51 million	147 million	28.7 billion
1971	60 million	243 million	29.3 billion
1970	11 million	258 million	22.1 billion
1969	–	121 million	24.7 billion
1968	–	88 million	22.4 billion
1967	1 million	140 million	22.1 billion
1966	22 million	58 million	22.4 billion
1965	4 million	87 million	23.1 billion
1964	4 million	84 million	24.2 billion
1963	–	111 million	18.1 billion
1962	–	113 million	15.5 billion
1961	–	52 million	15 billion
1960	–	28 million	15.7 billion

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Major weapons the country received, 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.
Ranks count the 110 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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