Arms imports 1960 - 2024

Description	Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licenses. Data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships designed for military use. Excluded are transfers of other military equipment such as small arms and light weapons, trucks, small artillery, ammunition, support equipment, technology transfers, and other services. Figures are SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIVs) expressed in US$ m. A '0' indicates that the value of deliveries is less than US$0.5m.
Unit of measure	Millions of $

Description

Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licenses. Data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships designed for military use. Excluded are transfers of other military equipment such as small arms and light weapons, trucks, small artillery, ammunition, support equipment, technology transfers, and other services. Figures are SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIVs) expressed in US$ m. A '0' indicates that the value of deliveries is less than US$0.5m.

Unit of measure

Millions of $

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

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	China
1960	2,431
1961	952
1962	415
1963	450
1964	485
1965	257
1966	233
1967	145
1968	182
1969	2
1970	2
1971	2
1972	2
1973	3
1974	3
1975	3
1976	3
1977	75
1978	86
1979	12
1980	7
1981	2
1982	15
1983	27
1984	73
1985	115
1986	20
1987	56
1988	106
1989	201
1990	303
1991	482
1992	1,228
1993	1,239
1994	327
1995	739
1996	1,528
1997	952
1998	403
1999	1,752
2000	2,522
2001	2,816
2002	2,871
2003	2,333
2004	3,287
2005	3,558
2006	2,847
2007	1,691
2008	1,809
2009	1,376
2010	981
2011	1,055
2012	1,571
2013	1,289
2014	1,077
2015	1,262
2016	1,209
2017	1,537
2018	2,008
2019	1,347
2020	811
2021	686
2022	646
2023	431
2024	72

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