Vietnam
Arms imports in Vietnam
Arms imports in Vietnam: 103 million TIV in 1960 and 177 million TIV in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 177 million TIV
- Since 1960
- +74 million TIV
- Rank, 2025
- 38 of 110
- counting from the highest
- World, 2025
- 33.3 billion TIV
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 1.32 billion TIV in 1972, the lowest 8 million TIV in 2007.
Every year
SIPRI trend-indicator values · SIPRI
| Year | Vietnam | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 million | 33.3 billion |
| 2024 | 58 million | 30.6 billion |
| 2023 | 45 million | 29.5 billion |
| 2022 | 86 million | 33 billion |
| 2021 | 235 million | 26.8 billion |
| 2020 | 38 million | 23.4 billion |
| 2019 | 166 million | 26.9 billion |
| 2018 | 604 million | 27.3 billion |
| 2017 | 783 million | 31.2 billion |
| 2016 | 924 million | 31.4 billion |
| 2015 | 869 million | 28.7 billion |
| 2014 | 1.23 billion | 27 billion |
| 2013 | 360 million | 27.4 billion |
| 2012 | 782 million | 27.9 billion |
| 2011 | 1.02 billion | 29.9 billion |
| 2010 | 161 million | 25.8 billion |
| 2009 | 61 million | 24 billion |
| 2008 | 186 million | 24.1 billion |
| 2007 | 8 million | 26.5 billion |
| 2006 | 42 million | 24.4 billion |
| 2005 | 221 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2004 | 299 million | 21.3 billion |
| 2003 | 22 million | 19.2 billion |
| 2002 | 58 million | 17.7 billion |
| 2001 | 97 million | 18.3 billion |
| 2000 | 11 million | 20.5 billion |
| 1999 | 168 million | 25.3 billion |
| 1998 | 209 million | 27.9 billion |
| 1997 | 111 million | 28.9 billion |
| 1996 | 214 million | 23.7 billion |
| 1995 | 273 million | 22.9 billion |
| 1994 | – | 22.8 billion |
| 1993 | – | 25.8 billion |
| 1992 | – | 24.3 billion |
| 1991 | – | 27.8 billion |
| 1990 | 116 million | 28.6 billion |
| 1989 | 128 million | 31.7 billion |
| 1988 | 65 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1987 | 50 million | 36.2 billion |
| 1986 | 78 million | 35.5 billion |
| 1985 | 28 million | 33.2 billion |
| 1984 | 557 million | 36.8 billion |
| 1983 | 916 million | 39.1 billion |
| 1982 | 532 million | 41.4 billion |
| 1981 | 1.07 billion | 42 billion |
| 1980 | 1.02 billion | 37.4 billion |
| 1979 | 1.25 billion | 33.3 billion |
| 1978 | 227 million | 39.2 billion |
| 1977 | 42 million | 37 billion |
| 1976 | 42 million | 33 billion |
| 1975 | 493 million | 34.2 billion |
| 1974 | 859 million | 32.9 billion |
| 1973 | 1.28 billion | 32.6 billion |
| 1972 | 1.32 billion | 28.7 billion |
| 1971 | 1.2 billion | 29.3 billion |
| 1970 | 1.21 billion | 22.1 billion |
| 1969 | 909 million | 24.7 billion |
| 1968 | 1.18 billion | 22.4 billion |
| 1967 | 1.1 billion | 22.1 billion |
| 1966 | 1.14 billion | 22.4 billion |
| 1965 | 651 million | 23.1 billion |
| 1964 | 266 million | 24.2 billion |
| 1963 | 107 million | 18.1 billion |
| 1962 | 47 million | 15.5 billion |
| 1961 | 95 million | 15 billion |
| 1960 | 103 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 spending2.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$10.9B in 2025
- Military spending per person$104 in 2025
- Military share of state spending9.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel522,000 people in 2020
- National power1.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms exports10 million TIV in 2018