Arms exports in Germany

Arms exports in Germany: 156 million TIV in 1960 and 1.7 billion TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025: 1.7 billion TIV
Since 1960: +1.54 billion TIV
World, 2025: 33.5 billion TIV

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Estimates, SIPRIWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 3.29 billion TIV in 2007, the lowest 12 million TIV in 1961.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Germany	World
2025	1.7 billion	33.5 billion
2024	2.11 billion	30.7 billion
2023	2.55 billion	29.5 billion
2022	1.51 billion	33.3 billion
2021	852 million	27.1 billion
2020	1.15 billion	24.1 billion
2019	978 million	27 billion
2018	1.1 billion	27.4 billion
2017	1.83 billion	31.3 billion
2016	2.51 billion	31.5 billion
2015	1.82 billion	28.7 billion
2014	1.83 billion	27.1 billion
2013	721 million	27.4 billion
2012	715 million	27.9 billion
2011	1.2 billion	29.9 billion
2010	2.36 billion	25.8 billion
2009	2.21 billion	24.4 billion
2008	2.38 billion	24.1 billion
2007	3.29 billion	26.5 billion
2006	2.48 billion	24.5 billion
2005	2.08 billion	21.4 billion
2004	1.09 billion	21.3 billion
2003	1.63 billion	19.2 billion
2002	889 million	17.7 billion
2001	851 million	18.5 billion
2000	1.67 billion	20.5 billion
1999	1.94 billion	25.4 billion
1998	1.84 billion	27.9 billion
1997	951 million	28.9 billion
1996	1.95 billion	23.7 billion
1995	1.53 billion	22.9 billion
1994	2.91 billion	23 billion
1993	1.55 billion	25.8 billion
1992	1.52 billion	24.3 billion
1991	2.41 billion	28.2 billion
1990	1.82 billion	30.2 billion
1989	1.26 billion	34.9 billion
1988	1.38 billion	36.8 billion
1987	908 million	39.4 billion
1986	1.35 billion	39 billion
1985	1.33 billion	38.2 billion
1984	2.93 billion	41.6 billion
1983	2.21 billion	43.9 billion
1982	1.51 billion	46.2 billion
1981	1.9 billion	45.8 billion
1980	1.6 billion	42.2 billion
1979	1.43 billion	38.4 billion
1978	1.6 billion	42.4 billion
1977	1.93 billion	40 billion
1976	1.66 billion	36 billion
1975	1.42 billion	37.2 billion
1974	1.19 billion	36.6 billion
1973	222 million	36.3 billion
1972	1.36 billion	34.5 billion
1971	1.36 billion	32.9 billion
1970	1.58 billion	25.3 billion
1969	882 million	28.1 billion
1968	588 million	26.1 billion
1967	758 million	25.6 billion
1966	711 million	25.8 billion
1965	327 million	25.8 billion
1964	437 million	26.7 billion
1963	133 million	20.3 billion
1962	146 million	17.5 billion
1961	12 million	16.4 billion
1960	156 million	17.6 billion

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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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