North Korea
Arms exports in North Korea
Arms exports in North Korea: 8 million TIV in 1974 and 44 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 44 million TIV
- Since 1974
- +36 million TIV
- World, 2025
- 33.5 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 231 million TIV in 1983, the lowest 1 million TIV in 2014.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | North Korea | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 million | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 211 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 9 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | – | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | – | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | – | 27 billion |
| 2018 | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | – | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | – | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 1 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 7 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 23 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 15 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 15 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 15 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 15 million | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 42 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 129 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 150 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 53 million | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 40 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 42 million | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 59 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 35 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 35 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 33 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 21 million | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 104 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 98 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 85 million | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 6 million | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 65 million | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 179 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 189 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 53 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 154 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 185 million | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 231 million | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 129 million | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 27 million | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 43 million | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 20 million | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | – | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | – | 40 billion |
| 1976 | – | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 12 million | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 8 million | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | – | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | – | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | – | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | – | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | – | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | – | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | – | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | – | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | – | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | – | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | – | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | – | 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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