Denmark
Arms imports in Denmark
Arms imports in Denmark: 142 million TIV in 1960 and 278 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 278 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +136 million TIV
- Rank, 2025
- 32 of 110
- counting from the highest
- World, 2025
- 33.3 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 491 million TIV in 1964, the lowest 6 million TIV in 2011.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Denmark | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 278 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 440 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 280 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 214 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 264 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 63 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 55 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 54 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 53 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 103 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 42 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 176 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 34 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 103 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 6 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 22 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 134 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 98 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 133 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 86 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 117 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 232 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 48 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 39 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 148 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 50 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 74 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 120 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 77 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 75 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 134 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 88 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 51 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 72 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 156 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 131 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 187 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 98 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 99 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 16 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 88 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 70 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 231 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 470 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 477 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 480 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 55 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 360 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 391 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 389 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 89 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 39 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | – | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 156 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 384 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 212 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 19 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 77 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 72 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 66 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 455 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 491 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 137 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 61 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 335 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 142 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.
- Ranks count the 110 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
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- Military spending3.25% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$14.1B in 2025
- Military spending per person$2,495 in 2025
- Military share of state spending6.6% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel15,000 people in 2020
- National power0.09% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.49% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports165 million TIV in 2025