Portugal
Arms imports in Portugal
Arms imports in Portugal: 35 million TIV in 1960 and 90 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 90 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +55 million TIV
- World, 2025
- 33.3 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 1.01 billion TIV in 1991, the lowest 1 million TIV in 2015.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Portugal | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 61 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 67 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | – | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 6 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 45 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 44 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 19 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 8 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 21 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 1 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 3 million | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 11 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 42 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 170 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 891 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 371 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 145 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 60 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 220 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 158 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 70 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 29 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | – | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 18 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 2 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 3 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 16 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 2 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 9 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 20 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 453 million | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 350 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 19 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 1.01 billion | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 74 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 149 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 90 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 9 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 3 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 154 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 109 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 12 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 192 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 57 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 36 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 7 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 130 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 94 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 64 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 327 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 118 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 17 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 17 million | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 267 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 371 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 339 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 371 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 286 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 244 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 39 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 46 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 41 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 28 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 157 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 35 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 spending1.71% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$5.51B in 2025
- Military spending per person$563 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel52,000 people in 2020
- National power0.12% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.01% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 2025