Sweden
Arms exports in Sweden
Arms exports in Sweden: 38 million TIV in 1960 and 235 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 235 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +197 million TIV
- World, 2025
- 33.5 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 892 million TIV in 2001, the lowest 13 million TIV in 1963.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Sweden | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 235 million | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 405 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 373 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 83 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 236 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 263 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 121 million | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 135 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 75 million | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 248 million | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 178 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 340 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 383 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 436 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 658 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 612 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 389 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 461 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 332 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 384 million | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 536 million | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 297 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 516 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 164 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 892 million | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 355 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 383 million | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 332 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 99 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 344 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 226 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 111 million | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 103 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 147 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 155 million | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 224 million | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 401 million | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 512 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 230 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 320 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 215 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 227 million | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 118 million | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 120 million | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 127 million | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 157 million | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 261 million | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 55 million | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 75 million | 40 billion |
| 1976 | 101 million | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 69 million | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 75 million | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | 15 million | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | 163 million | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 547 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | 158 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 36 million | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | 60 million | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | 55 million | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 56 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | 32 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 22 million | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 13 million | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 44 million | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 46 million | 16.4 billion |
| 1960 | 38 million | 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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- Military spending2.47% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$15B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,549 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel15,000 people in 2020
- National power0.19% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.27% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports146 million TIV in 2025