Poland
Arms imports in Poland
Arms imports in Poland: 889 million TIV in 1960 and 2.17 billion TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 2.17 billion TIV
- Since 1960
- +1.28 billion TIV
- Rank, 2025
- 4 of 110
- counting from the highest
- World, 2025
- 33.3 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 2.17 billion TIV in 2025, the lowest 4 million TIV in 1993.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Poland | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.17 billion | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 1.54 billion | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 1.39 billion | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 414 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 68 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 153 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 213 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 50 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 126 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 45 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 127 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 275 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 146 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 227 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 141 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 174 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 193 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 633 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 969 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 442 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 105 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 223 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 347 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 253 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 31 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 146 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 23 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | – | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | – | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 101 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 250 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 74 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 4 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 100 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 76 million | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 226 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 501 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 903 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 1.04 billion | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 1.39 billion | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 925 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 466 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 536 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 709 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 804 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 1.12 billion | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 1.19 billion | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 1.19 billion | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 1.02 billion | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 1.1 billion | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 887 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 1.06 billion | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 1.11 billion | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 958 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 1.01 billion | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 859 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 992 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 927 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 781 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 1 billion | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 1.16 billion | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 1.57 billion | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 1.02 billion | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 685 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 864 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 889 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 spending4.5% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$42.5B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,219 in 2025
- Military share of state spending9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel189,000 people in 2020
- National power0.52% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.04% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports59 million TIV in 2025