Belgium
Arms exports in Belgium
Arms exports in Belgium: 3 million TIV in 1960 and 86 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 86 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +83 million TIV
- World, 2025
- 33.5 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 242 million TIV in 2009, the lowest 0 TIV in 1961.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Belgium | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 million | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 69 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 41 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 129 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 99 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 19 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 50 million | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 21 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 17 million | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 7 million | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 12 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 10 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 54 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 21 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 110 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 11 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 242 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 223 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 32 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 59 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 160 million | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 47 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 15 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 32 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 37 million | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 46 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 62 million | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 46 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 93 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 61 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 161 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 39 million | 23 billion |
| 1993 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 1 million | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 1 million | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 36 million | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 18 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | – | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 19 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 4 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 115 million | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 89 million | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 41 million | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 19 million | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | – | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 3 million | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | – | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | – | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 0 | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 5 million | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | – | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 12 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 0 | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 0 | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 2 million | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 0 | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 3 million | 17.6 billion |
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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- Military spending2.01% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$13.6B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,237 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel24,000 people in 2020
- National power0.22% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.47% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports430 million TIV in 2025
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