Kuwait
Arms imports in Kuwait
Arms imports in Kuwait: 44 million TIV in 1960 and 311 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 311 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +267 million TIV
- Rank, 2025
- 31 of 110
- counting from the highest
- World, 2025
- 33.3 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 1.57 billion TIV in 2022, the lowest 2 million TIV in 2004.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Kuwait | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 311 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 388 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 497 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 1.57 billion | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 1.57 billion | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 67 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 55 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 96 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 113 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 147 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 317 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 701 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 73 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 31 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 116 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 87 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 8 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 5 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 288 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 5 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 12 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 2 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 42 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 22 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 67 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 226 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 198 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 46 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 482 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 1.21 billion | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 646 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 36 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 694 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 896 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 515 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 324 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 132 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 6 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 50 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 167 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 619 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 454 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 251 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 173 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 13 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 35 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 223 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 504 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 485 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 230 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 77 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 5 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 4 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 30 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 109 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 59 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 126 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 104 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 11 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 23 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 56 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 5 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 10 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 4 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 44 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 spending4.69% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$7.92B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,623 in 2025
- Military share of state spending10.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel25,000 people in 2020
- National power0.2% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.03% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports95 million TIV in 1998