France
Arms exports in France
Arms exports in France: 866 million TIV in 1960 and 3.37 billion TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 3.37 billion TIV
- Since 1960
- +2.5 billion TIV
- World, 2025
- 33.5 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 3.99 billion TIV in 1985, the lowest 856 million TIV in 1961.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | France | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.37 billion | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 2.47 billion | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 2.18 billion | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 3.16 billion | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 3.9 billion | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 2.29 billion | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 3.75 billion | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 1.87 billion | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 2.34 billion | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 2.19 billion | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 2.23 billion | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 1.76 billion | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 1.87 billion | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 1.34 billion | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 2.08 billion | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 888 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 1.85 billion | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 1.87 billion | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 2.15 billion | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 1.48 billion | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 1.65 billion | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 2.12 billion | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 1.35 billion | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 1.38 billion | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 1.31 billion | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 966 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 1.68 billion | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 3.1 billion | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 3.18 billion | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 1.84 billion | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 969 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 858 million | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 971 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 1.25 billion | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 1.17 billion | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 1.8 billion | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 2.27 billion | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 1.96 billion | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 1.75 billion | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 2.96 billion | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 3.99 billion | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 2.93 billion | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 3.41 billion | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 3.79 billion | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 3.68 billion | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 3.85 billion | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 2.97 billion | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 3.32 billion | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 2.74 billion | 40 billion |
| 1976 | 2.04 billion | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 2.32 billion | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 2.18 billion | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | 2.97 billion | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | 2.69 billion | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 2.36 billion | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | 1.74 billion | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 1.52 billion | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | 1.5 billion | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | 1.6 billion | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 1.9 billion | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | 1.33 billion | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 1.57 billion | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 1.33 billion | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 912 million | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 856 million | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 866 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 spending2.03% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$64.5B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,021 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel304,000 people in 2020
- National power1.09% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports236 million TIV in 2025