Afghanistan
Arms imports in Afghanistan
Arms imports in Afghanistan: 39 million TIV in 1960 and 65 million TIV in 2021, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2021
- 65 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +26 million TIV
- World, 2021
- 26.8 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 1.82 billion TIV in 1989, the lowest 3 million TIV in 2006.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Afghanistan | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | – | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | – | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 65 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 231 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 379 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 312 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 235 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 170 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 131 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 323 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 253 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 518 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 632 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 365 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 326 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 148 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 40 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 3 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 33 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | – | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 34 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | – | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | – | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | – | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | – | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 1.24 billion | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 1.61 billion | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 1.82 billion | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 927 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 489 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 210 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 158 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 394 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 269 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 455 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 553 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 632 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 449 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 156 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 75 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 230 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 137 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 47 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | – | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | – | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 25 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 120 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 166 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 145 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 230 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 198 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 91 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 56 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 40 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 64 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 55 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 39 million | 15.7 billion |
Good to know
- 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.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
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- Military spending1.83% of GDP in 2021
- Military spending in US dollars$8.55M in 1977
- Military spending per person$7 in 2021
- Military share of state spending5% of government spending in 2020
- Armed forces personnel165,000 people in 2020
- National power0.29% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.82% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 1992