United Arab Emirates vs Vietnam
United Arab Emirates vs Vietnam: Arms exports
Arms exports: 33 million TIV in United Arab Emirates in 2025 and 10 million TIV in Vietnam in 2018, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by 110 million TIV, or 12 times that in Vietnam.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- United Arab Emirates has been higher since 2006, when it overtook Vietnam.
- The world as a whole: 27.4 billion TIV in 2018.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | United Arab Emirates | Vietnam | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 million | – | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 119 million | – | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 64 million | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 17 million | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 57 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 209 million | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 131 million | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 120 million | 10 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 106 million | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 111 million | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 143 million | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 100 million | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 115 million | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 75 million | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 3 million | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 39 million | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 34 million | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | – | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 3 million | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 17 million | 14 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 15 million | – | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 3 million | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | – | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | – | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | – | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | – | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 37 million | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 6 million | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 28 million | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | – | 23 billion |
| 1993 | – | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | – | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 2 million | – | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | – | – | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | – | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 2 million | 11 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 22 million | – | 39 billion |
| 1985 | – | – | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | – | – | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 14 million | – | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | – | – | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | – | – | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | – | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | – | – | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | – | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | – | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | – | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 8 million | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | 0 | 34.5 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
United Arab Emirates vs Vietnam
Health
- Life expectancyUnited Arab Emirates: 82.9 years in 2023Vietnam: 74.6 years in 2023
- Child mortalityUnited Arab Emirates: 0.5 per 100 live births in 2024Vietnam: 1.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityUnited Arab Emirates: 4.9 per 1,000 live births in 2023Vietnam: 15.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionUnited Arab Emirates: 2.88% in 2017Vietnam: 2.88% in 2017
- Suicide rateUnited Arab Emirates: 5.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Vietnam: 7.4 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationUnited Arab Emirates: 10.6 million people in 2023Vietnam: 100 million people in 2023
- Population growthUnited Arab Emirates: 3.7% a year in 2023Vietnam: 0.64% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateUnited Arab Emirates: 1.2 births per woman in 2023Vietnam: 1.91 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationUnited Arab Emirates: 86% in 2025Vietnam: 38.8% in 2025
- Median ageUnited Arab Emirates: 31.2 years in 2023Vietnam: 32.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overUnited Arab Emirates: 1.7% in 2023Vietnam: 8.6% in 2023
- Net migration rateUnited Arab Emirates: 28.2 per 1,000 people in 2023Vietnam: -0.8 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
- GDP per personUnited Arab Emirates: $41,610 in 2024Vietnam: $4,308 in 2025
- GDP growthUnited Arab Emirates: 6.2% a year in 2025Vietnam: 8% a year in 2025
- InflationUnited Arab Emirates: 1.3% a year in 2025Vietnam: 3.3% a year in 2025
- Government debtUnited Arab Emirates: 33.9% of GDP in 2025Vietnam: 30.5% of GDP in 2025
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingUnited Arab Emirates: 5.64% of GDP in 2014Vietnam: 2.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsUnited Arab Emirates: $27.8B in 2014Vietnam: $10.9B in 2025
- Military spending per personUnited Arab Emirates: $2,840 in 2014Vietnam: $104 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingUnited Arab Emirates: 17% of government spending in 2014Vietnam: 9.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelUnited Arab Emirates: 63,000 people in 2020Vietnam: 522,000 people in 2020
- National powerUnited Arab Emirates: 0.47% of world capability in 2022Vietnam: 1.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersUnited Arab Emirates: 1.02% of the labour force in 2020Vietnam: 0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsUnited Arab Emirates: 868 million TIV in 2025Vietnam: 177 million TIV in 2025