France vs Germany: Arms exports
Arms exports over time
- France
- Germany
How they compare
France currently reports 2.27 billion SIPRI trend indicator values against 2.05 billion SIPRI trend indicator values in Germany, a difference of 223.00 million SIPRI trend indicator values.
That makes France's figure about 1.1 times Germany's.
The two have swapped places 16 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was France ahead.
Globally, France ranks 2nd and Germany ranks 3rd of 70 countries.
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About this data
Arms transfers (exports) cover the volume of transfers of major arms through sales and gifts, and those made through manufacturing licenses. Data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships. Figures are SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIVs). A '0' indicates that the volume of deliveries is between 0 and 0.5 million SIPRI TIV.