Arms imports in Pakistan

Arms imports in Pakistan: 46 million TIV in 1960 and 706 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025: 706 million TIV
Since 1960: +660 million TIV
Rank, 2025: 14 of 110; counting from the highest
World, 2025: 33.3 billion TIV

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SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Estimates, SIPRIWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 2.23 billion TIV in 2010, the lowest 41 million TIV in 1961.

Every year

SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI

Year	Pakistan	World
2025	706 million	33.3 billion
2024	1.07 billion	30.6 billion
2023	2.2 billion	29.5 billion
2022	1.53 billion	33 billion
2021	984 million	26.8 billion
2020	624 million	23.4 billion
2019	654 million	26.9 billion
2018	893 million	27.3 billion
2017	870 million	31.2 billion
2016	872 million	31.4 billion
2015	771 million	28.7 billion
2014	877 million	27 billion
2013	1.11 billion	27.4 billion
2012	1.02 billion	27.9 billion
2011	1.18 billion	29.9 billion
2010	2.23 billion	25.8 billion
2009	1.2 billion	24 billion
2008	1.07 billion	24.1 billion
2007	693 million	26.5 billion
2006	324 million	24.4 billion
2005	427 million	21.3 billion
2004	471 million	21.3 billion
2003	645 million	19.2 billion
2002	566 million	17.7 billion
2001	412 million	18.3 billion
2000	175 million	20.5 billion
1999	867 million	25.3 billion
1998	699 million	27.9 billion
1997	691 million	28.9 billion
1996	506 million	23.7 billion
1995	368 million	22.9 billion
1994	862 million	22.8 billion
1993	992 million	25.8 billion
1992	352 million	24.3 billion
1991	511 million	27.8 billion
1990	635 million	28.6 billion
1989	974 million	31.7 billion
1988	412 million	32.9 billion
1987	617 million	36.2 billion
1986	280 million	35.5 billion
1985	751 million	33.2 billion
1984	863 million	36.8 billion
1983	784 million	39.1 billion
1982	544 million	41.4 billion
1981	491 million	42 billion
1980	900 million	37.4 billion
1979	697 million	33.3 billion
1978	655 million	39.2 billion
1977	271 million	37 billion
1976	276 million	33 billion
1975	223 million	34.2 billion
1974	225 million	32.9 billion
1973	177 million	32.6 billion
1972	664 million	28.7 billion
1971	553 million	29.3 billion
1970	422 million	22.1 billion
1969	542 million	24.7 billion
1968	415 million	22.4 billion
1967	151 million	22.1 billion
1966	592 million	22.4 billion
1965	222 million	23.1 billion
1964	96 million	24.2 billion
1963	225 million	18.1 billion
1962	84 million	15.5 billion
1961	41 million	15 billion
1960	46 million	15.7 billion

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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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