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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	United States
1960	221,000,000
1961	238,000,000
1962	264,000,000
1963	323,000,000
1964	326,000,000
1965	190,000,000
1966	109,000,000
1967	84,000,000
1968	70,000,000
1969	70,000,000
1970	43,000,000
1971	587,000,000
1972	779,000,000
1973	664,000,000
1974	592,000,000
1975	393,000,000
1976	499,000,000
1977	384,000,000
1978	369,000,000
1979	253,000,000
1980	380,000,000
1981	531,000,000
1982	248,000,000
1983	463,000,000
1984	381,000,000
1985	655,000,000
1986	420,000,000
1987	1,992,000,000
1988	1,787,000,000
1989	1,784,000,000
1990	367,000,000
1991	520,000,000
1992	535,000,000
1993	963,000,000
1994	950,000,000
1995	757,000,000
1996	557,000,000
1997	582,000,000
1998	266,000,000
1999	222,000,000
2000	336,000,000
2001	499,000,000
2002	511,000,000
2003	610,000,000
2004	578,000,000
2005	537,000,000
2006	646,000,000
2007	832,000,000
2008	967,000,000
2009	977,000,000
2010	1,091,000,000
2011	1,012,000,000
2012	1,207,000,000
2013	791,000,000
2014	590,000,000
2015	513,000,000
2016	451,000,000
2017	516,000,000
2018	380,000,000
2019	866,000,000
2020	687,000,000

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