Malta
Arms imports in Malta
Arms imports in Malta: 0 TIV in 1972 and 45 million TIV in 2023, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2023
- 45 million TIV
- Since 1972
- +45 million TIV
- World, 2023
- 29.5 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Malta | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | – | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 45 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | – | 33 billion |
| 2021 | – | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | – | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | – | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | – | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 8 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 6 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 10 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 12 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 8 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 8 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | – | 24 billion |
| 2008 | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | – | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | – | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 18 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 4 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | – | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 4 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 0 | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 0 | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 0 | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 6 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 1 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 0 | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 13 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | – | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | – | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | – | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | – | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | – | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | – | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | – | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | – | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | – | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 1 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | – | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 8 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | – | 37 billion |
| 1976 | – | 33 billion |
| 1975 | – | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 0 | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 0 | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | – | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | – | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | – | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | – | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | – | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | – | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | – | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | – | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | – | 15 billion |
| 1960 | – | 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.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
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- Military spending0.45% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$117M in 2025
- Military spending per person$230 in 2025
- Military share of state spending1.3% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel2,000 people in 2020
- National power0.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.73% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports5 million TIV in 2015