Israel
Arms imports in Israel
Arms imports in Israel: 164 million TIV in 1960 and 537 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 537 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +373 million TIV
- Rank, 2025
- 20 of 110
- counting from the highest
- World, 2025
- 33.3 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 2.18 billion TIV in 1973, the lowest 24 million TIV in 1989.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Israel | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 537 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 237 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 863 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 833 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 458 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 379 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 516 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 491 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 565 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 652 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 694 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 549 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 160 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 137 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 86 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 76 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 162 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 680 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 840 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 1.13 billion | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 1.1 billion | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 846 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 189 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 350 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 116 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 389 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 1.28 billion | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 1.3 billion | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 67 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 105 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 372 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 767 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 716 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 1.34 billion | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 1.21 billion | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 81 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 24 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 582 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 1.08 billion | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 1.18 billion | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 295 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 270 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 475 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 866 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 1.66 billion | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 1.25 billion | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 709 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 1.22 billion | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 1.23 billion | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 2 billion | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 1.18 billion | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 1.03 billion | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 2.18 billion | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 963 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 1.41 billion | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 1.19 billion | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 1.37 billion | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 926 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 229 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 460 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 447 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 415 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 368 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 279 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 88 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 164 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 spending7.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$43.7B in 2025
- Military spending per person$5,108 in 2025
- Military share of state spending17.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel178,000 people in 2020
- National power0.38% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers4.23% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports2.62 billion TIV in 2025