Netherlands vs Vietnam
Netherlands vs Vietnam: Arms exports
Arms exports: 601 million TIV in Netherlands in 2025 and 10 million TIV in Vietnam in 2018, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Netherlands, by 458 million TIV, or 47 times that in Vietnam.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Netherlands 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
| Year | Netherlands | Vietnam | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 601 million | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 370 million | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 250 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 324 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 357 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 497 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 304 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 468 million | 10 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 1.14 billion | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 487 million | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 469 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 643 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 384 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 906 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 541 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 366 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 504 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 452 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 1.23 billion | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 1.15 billion | 14 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 496 million | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 202 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 331 million | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 233 million | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 199 million | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 281 million | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 355 million | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 642 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 619 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 484 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 458 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 628 million | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 458 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 383 million | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 455 million | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 416 million | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 558 million | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 776 million | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 506 million | 11 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 357 million | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 180 million | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 364 million | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 457 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 661 million | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 801 million | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 612 million | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 243 million | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 235 million | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 444 million | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | 293 million | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 148 million | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 83 million | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | 203 million | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | 133 million | 0 | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 155 million | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | 5 million | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 107 million | – | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | 352 million | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | 95 million | – | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 144 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | 40 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 95 million | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 43 million | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 69 million | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 105 million | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 38 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
Netherlands vs Vietnam
Health
- Life expectancyNetherlands: 82.2 years in 2023Vietnam: 74.6 years in 2023
- Child mortalityNetherlands: 0.4 per 100 live births in 2024Vietnam: 1.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityNetherlands: 3.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023Vietnam: 15.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterNetherlands: 100% in 2022Vietnam: 57.8% in 2022
- DepressionNetherlands: 4.03% in 2017Vietnam: 2.88% in 2017
- Suicide rateNetherlands: 9.2 per 100,000 people in 2017Vietnam: 7.4 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationNetherlands: 18.1 million people in 2023Vietnam: 100 million people in 2023
- Population growthNetherlands: 0.81% a year in 2023Vietnam: 0.64% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateNetherlands: 1.43 births per woman in 2023Vietnam: 1.91 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationNetherlands: 95.9% in 2025Vietnam: 38.8% in 2025
- Median ageNetherlands: 41.4 years in 2023Vietnam: 32.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overNetherlands: 20.2% in 2023Vietnam: 8.6% in 2023
- Net migration rateNetherlands: 8 per 1,000 people in 2023Vietnam: -0.8 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingNetherlands: 2.2% of GDP in 2025Vietnam: 2.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsNetherlands: $27B in 2025Vietnam: $10.9B in 2025
- Military spending per personNetherlands: $1,582 in 2025Vietnam: $104 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingNetherlands: 4.8% of government spending in 2025Vietnam: 9.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelNetherlands: 41,000 people in 2020Vietnam: 522,000 people in 2020
- National powerNetherlands: 0.38% of world capability in 2022Vietnam: 1.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersNetherlands: 0.42% of the labour force in 2020Vietnam: 0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsNetherlands: 824 million TIV in 2025Vietnam: 177 million TIV in 2025