Netherlands
Arms exports in Netherlands
Arms exports in Netherlands: 38 million TIV in 1960 and 601 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 601 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +563 million TIV
- World, 2025
- 33.5 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 1.23 billion TIV in 2007, the lowest 5 million TIV in 1970.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Netherlands | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 601 million | 33.5 billion |
| 2024 | 370 million | 30.7 billion |
| 2023 | 250 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 324 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2021 | 357 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2020 | 497 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2019 | 304 million | 27 billion |
| 2018 | 468 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2017 | 1.14 billion | 31.3 billion |
| 2016 | 487 million | 31.5 billion |
| 2015 | 469 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 643 million | 27.1 billion |
| 2013 | 384 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 906 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 541 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 366 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 504 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2008 | 452 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 1.23 billion | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 1.15 billion | 24.5 billion |
| 2005 | 496 million | 21.4 billion |
| 2004 | 202 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 331 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 233 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 199 million | 18.5 billion |
| 2000 | 281 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 355 million | 25.4 billion |
| 1998 | 642 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 619 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 484 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 458 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 628 million | 23 billion |
| 1993 | 458 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 383 million | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 455 million | 28.2 billion |
| 1990 | 416 million | 30.2 billion |
| 1989 | 558 million | 34.9 billion |
| 1988 | 776 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1987 | 506 million | 39.4 billion |
| 1986 | 357 million | 39 billion |
| 1985 | 180 million | 38.2 billion |
| 1984 | 364 million | 41.6 billion |
| 1983 | 457 million | 43.9 billion |
| 1982 | 661 million | 46.2 billion |
| 1981 | 801 million | 45.8 billion |
| 1980 | 612 million | 42.2 billion |
| 1979 | 243 million | 38.4 billion |
| 1978 | 235 million | 42.4 billion |
| 1977 | 444 million | 40 billion |
| 1976 | 293 million | 36 billion |
| 1975 | 148 million | 37.2 billion |
| 1974 | 83 million | 36.6 billion |
| 1973 | 203 million | 36.3 billion |
| 1972 | 133 million | 34.5 billion |
| 1971 | 155 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1970 | 5 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1969 | 107 million | 28.1 billion |
| 1968 | 352 million | 26.1 billion |
| 1967 | 95 million | 25.6 billion |
| 1966 | 144 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1965 | 40 million | 25.8 billion |
| 1964 | 95 million | 26.7 billion |
| 1963 | 43 million | 20.3 billion |
| 1962 | 69 million | 17.5 billion |
| 1961 | 105 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 spending2.2% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$27B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,582 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel41,000 people in 2020
- National power0.38% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.42% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports824 million TIV in 2025