Türkiye vs United Kingdom

Türkiye vs United Kingdom: Arms exports

Arms exports in 2025: 539 million TIV in Türkiye and 702 million TIV in United Kingdom, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in United Kingdom, by 163 million TIV, or 1.3 times that in Türkiye.

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Türkiye vs United Kingdom: Arms exportsArms exports in 2025: 539 million TIV in Türkiye and 702 million TIV in United Kingdom, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in United Kingdom, by 163 million TIV, or 1.3 times that in Türkiye.
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What the numbers say

  • United Kingdom has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1980.
  • The world as a whole: 33.5 billion TIV in 2025.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

YearTürkiyeUnited KingdomWorld
2025539 million702 million33.5 billion
2024411 million884 million30.7 billion
2023698 million1.32 billion29.5 billion
2022628 million1.74 billion33.3 billion
2021526 million639 million27.1 billion
2020275 million652 million24.1 billion
2019286 million886 million27 billion
2018257 million682 million27.4 billion
2017184 million1.1 billion31.3 billion
2016258 million1.34 billion31.5 billion
2015244 million1.18 billion28.7 billion
2014166 million1.66 billion27.1 billion
2013146 million1.51 billion27.4 billion
2012149 million813 million27.9 billion
201195 million1 billion29.9 billion
201079 million1.15 billion25.8 billion
200978 million1.07 billion24.4 billion
2008123 million931 million24.1 billion
200788 million924 million26.5 billion
200668 million957 million24.5 billion
200526 million990 million21.4 billion
200430 million1.23 billion21.3 billion
200345 million769 million19.2 billion
200228 million1.08 billion17.7 billion
20015 million1.35 billion18.5 billion
200021 million1.62 billion20.5 billion
199946 million1.32 billion25.4 billion
19983 million1.4 billion27.9 billion
199702.36 billion28.9 billion
19963 million1.62 billion23.7 billion
19953 million1.46 billion22.9 billion
1994–1.53 billion23 billion
1993–1.38 billion25.8 billion
1992–1.09 billion24.3 billion
1991–1.53 billion28.2 billion
1990–1.84 billion30.2 billion
1989–3.5 billion34.9 billion
1988–2.53 billion36.8 billion
1987–3.6 billion39.4 billion
1986–1.99 billion39 billion
1985–2.14 billion38.2 billion
1984–2.53 billion41.6 billion
1983–2.54 billion43.9 billion
1982–2.52 billion46.2 billion
198111 million2.36 billion45.8 billion
198023 million1.57 billion42.2 billion
1979–1.54 billion38.4 billion
1978–2.21 billion42.4 billion
1977–2.2 billion40 billion
1976–2.52 billion36 billion
1975–2.23 billion37.2 billion
1974–2.25 billion36.6 billion
1973–2.79 billion36.3 billion
1972–2.68 billion34.5 billion
1971–2.35 billion32.9 billion
1970–982 million25.3 billion
1969–1.62 billion28.1 billion
1968–1.68 billion26.1 billion
1967–1.88 billion25.6 billion
1966–1.42 billion25.8 billion
1965–1.5 billion25.8 billion
1964–1.41 billion26.7 billion
1963–1.24 billion20.3 billion
1962–1.07 billion17.5 billion
1961–1.4 billion16.4 billion
1960–2.19 billion17.6 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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