United Arab Emirates vs Yemen
United Arab Emirates vs Yemen: Arms exports
Arms exports: 33 million TIV in United Arab Emirates in 2025 and 51 million TIV in Yemen in 1986, by SIPRI estimates. In 1986 the value was higher in Yemen, by 29 million TIV, or 2.32 times that in United Arab Emirates.
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Yemen has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1986.
- The world as a whole: 39 billion TIV in 1986.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | United Arab Emirates | Yemen | 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 | – | 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 | – | 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 | – | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 22 million | 51 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | – | 3 million | 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 | – | 6 million | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 8 million | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | – | 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 Yemen
Health
- Life expectancyUnited Arab Emirates: 82.9 years in 2023Yemen: 69.3 years in 2023
- Child mortalityUnited Arab Emirates: 0.5 per 100 live births in 2024Yemen: 3.8 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityUnited Arab Emirates: 4.9 per 1,000 live births in 2023Yemen: 32.3 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionUnited Arab Emirates: 2.88% in 2017Yemen: 4.01% in 2017
- Suicide rateUnited Arab Emirates: 5.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Yemen: 6 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationUnited Arab Emirates: 10.6 million people in 2023Yemen: 39.4 million people in 2023
- Population growthUnited Arab Emirates: 3.7% a year in 2023Yemen: 3.03% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateUnited Arab Emirates: 1.2 births per woman in 2023Yemen: 4.59 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationUnited Arab Emirates: 86% in 2025Yemen: 37% in 2025
- Median ageUnited Arab Emirates: 31.2 years in 2023Yemen: 18.2 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overUnited Arab Emirates: 1.7% in 2023Yemen: 2.5% in 2023
- Net migration rateUnited Arab Emirates: 28.2 per 1,000 people in 2023Yemen: -0.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingUnited Arab Emirates: 5.64% of GDP in 2014Yemen: 3.97% of GDP in 2014
- Military spending in US dollarsUnited Arab Emirates: $27.8B in 2014Yemen: $12.3B in 2014
- Military spending per personUnited Arab Emirates: $2,840 in 2014Yemen: $58 in 2014
- Military share of state spendingUnited Arab Emirates: 17% of government spending in 2014Yemen: 14.3% of government spending in 2014
- Armed forces personnelUnited Arab Emirates: 63,000 people in 2020Yemen: 40,000 people in 2020
- National powerUnited Arab Emirates: 0.47% of world capability in 2022Yemen: 0.24% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersUnited Arab Emirates: 1.02% of the labour force in 2020Yemen: 0.58% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsUnited Arab Emirates: 868 million TIV in 2025Yemen: 1 million TIV in 2022