North Korea
Arms imports in North Korea
Arms imports in North Korea: 405 million TIV in 1960 and 1 million TIV in 2010, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2010
- 1 million TIV
- Since 1960
- −404 million TIV
- World, 2010
- 25.8 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 1.5 billion TIV in 1971, the lowest 1 million TIV in 2010.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | North Korea | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | – | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | – | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | – | 33 billion |
| 2021 | – | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | – | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | – | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | – | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | – | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | – | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | – | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | – | 27 billion |
| 2013 | – | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | – | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | – | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 1 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 4 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 5 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 5 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 5 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 5 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 8 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 35 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 54 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 73 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 63 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 54 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 54 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 54 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 118 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 184 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 79 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 146 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 183 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 251 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 340 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 561 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 818 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 813 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 1.08 billion | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 963 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 112 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 339 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 527 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 347 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 487 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 313 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 354 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 297 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 487 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 561 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 793 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 535 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 482 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 1.5 billion | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 649 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 609 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 1.31 billion | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 846 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 832 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 118 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 168 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 197 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 181 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 69 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 405 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.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
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