Türkiye
Arms imports in Türkiye
Arms imports in Türkiye: 581 million TIV in 1960 and 381 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 381 million TIV
- Since 1960
- −200 million TIV
- Rank, 2025
- 30 of 110
- counting from the highest
- World, 2025
- 33.3 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 2.62 billion TIV in 1998, the lowest 110 million TIV in 2020.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Türkiye | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 381 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 381 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 679 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 187 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 249 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 110 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 742 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 476 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 427 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 324 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 446 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 1.53 billion | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 769 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 1.48 billion | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 794 million | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 469 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 714 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 623 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 675 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 524 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 1.08 billion | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 252 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 327 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 878 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 501 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 1.18 billion | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 1.73 billion | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 2.62 billion | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 1.51 billion | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 1.49 billion | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 1.56 billion | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | 1.89 billion | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | 2.33 billion | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | 1.87 billion | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | 1.29 billion | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 1.24 billion | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 1.03 billion | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 1.63 billion | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 1.43 billion | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 472 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 678 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 549 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 503 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 478 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 726 million | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 486 million | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 917 million | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 984 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 293 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 358 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 640 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 1.28 billion | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 790 million | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 1.09 billion | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 941 million | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 396 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 628 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 418 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 593 million | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 525 million | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 603 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 839 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 586 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 266 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 322 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 581 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 spending1.91% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$26.8B in 2025
- Military spending per person$342 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel512,000 people in 2020
- National power1.25% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.61% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports539 million TIV in 2025