Arms exports 1960 - 2022

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	285,000,000
1961	35,000,000
1962	47,000,000
1963	12,000,000
1964	68,000,000
1965	387,000,000
1966	619,000,000
1967	412,000,000
1968	730,000,000
1969	657,000,000
1970	893,000,000
1971	1,296,000,000
1972	1,242,000,000
1973	665,000,000
1974	516,000,000
1975	669,000,000
1976	588,000,000
1977	231,000,000
1978	618,000,000
1979	561,000,000
1980	950,000,000
1981	660,000,000
1982	1,511,000,000
1983	1,770,000,000
1984	1,936,000,000
1985	1,296,000,000
1986	1,868,000,000
1987	2,622,000,000
1988	1,428,000,000
1989	1,046,000,000
1990	949,000,000
1991	1,313,000,000
1992	700,000,000
1993	1,436,000,000
1994	1,103,000,000
1995	1,009,000,000
1996	766,000,000
1997	427,000,000
1998	350,000,000
1999	329,000,000
2000	310,000,000
2001	514,000,000
2002	527,000,000
2003	704,000,000
2004	411,000,000
2005	337,000,000
2006	722,000,000
2007	510,000,000
2008	651,000,000
2009	1,137,000,000
2010	1,475,000,000
2011	1,271,000,000
2012	1,526,000,000
2013	2,067,000,000
2014	1,308,000,000
2015	1,800,000,000
2016	2,449,000,000
2017	1,617,000,000
2018	1,372,000,000
2019	1,585,000,000
2020	760,000,000
2021	1,462,000,000
2022	2,017,000,000

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