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	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	936
1962	307
1963	450
1964	395
1965	218
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	306
1991	482
1992	1,228
1993	1,243
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	1,642
2008	1,809
2009	1,403
2010	981
2011	1,055
2012	1,573
2013	1,293
2014	1,082
2015	1,262
2016	1,143
2017	1,338
2018	2,119
2019	1,503
2020	884

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