Arms imports 1960 - 2020

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	$

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

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

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	China
1960	2,431,000,000
1961	936,000,000
1962	307,000,000
1963	450,000,000
1964	395,000,000
1965	218,000,000
1966	233,000,000
1967	145,000,000
1968	182,000,000
1969	2,000,000
1970	2,000,000
1971	2,000,000
1972	2,000,000
1973	3,000,000
1974	3,000,000
1975	3,000,000
1976	3,000,000
1977	75,000,000
1978	86,000,000
1979	12,000,000
1980	7,000,000
1981	2,000,000
1982	15,000,000
1983	27,000,000
1984	73,000,000
1985	115,000,000
1986	17,000,000
1987	53,000,000
1988	106,000,000
1989	201,000,000
1990	303,000,000
1991	482,000,000
1992	1,228,000,000
1993	1,239,000,000
1994	327,000,000
1995	739,000,000
1996	1,528,000,000
1997	952,000,000
1998	403,000,000
1999	1,752,000,000
2000	2,522,000,000
2001	2,816,000,000
2002	2,871,000,000
2003	2,333,000,000
2004	3,287,000,000
2005	3,558,000,000
2006	2,847,000,000
2007	1,639,000,000
2008	1,809,000,000
2009	1,368,000,000
2010	981,000,000
2011	1,055,000,000
2012	1,571,000,000
2013	1,289,000,000
2014	1,077,000,000
2015	1,262,000,000
2016	1,139,000,000
2017	1,338,000,000
2018	1,962,000,000
2019	1,347,000,000
2020	811,000,000

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