United States - Arms imports

Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values)

The latest value for Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values) in United States was 687,000,000 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 1,992,000,000 in 1987 and 43,000,000 in 1970.

Definition: 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. at constant (1990) prices. A '0' indicates that the value of deliveries is less than US$0.5m.

Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Arms Transfers Programme (http://portal.sipri.org/publications/pages/transfer/splash).

See also:

Year Value
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

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Defense & arms trade