El Salvador Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values)

El Salvador Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values): Key Points

• El Salvador's arms imports reached 5.00M SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIVs) in 2023. That is down on the 21.00M SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIVs) recorded in 2014, a fall of about 76%.
• 2017: falls away sharply to 1.00M SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIVs) (-95%).
• 2019: leaps to 2.00M SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIVs) (+100%).
• 2020: spikes to 4.00M SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIVs) (+100%).
• 2022: shoots up to 7.00M SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIVs) (+75%).
• 2023: The finish line reads 5.00M SIPRI trend-indicator values (TIVs), 76.2% behind 2014.

What The Ups And Downs Really Mean

This is a series to read year by year, not to summarize with a single trend line. Doing the latter would flatten out real, meaningful movement.

This chart is a starting point, not a conclusion. El Salvador's arms imports numbers here are worth cross-checking against at least one other source or comparator before they inform any real decision.

Check the source link for methodology before quoting a specific year from this chart — El Salvador's underlying statistics agency, like most, revises and re-estimates historical figures as better data comes in.

The source simply doesn't have a reading for every year in this range — the 2014-to-2017 jump skips real missing years, worth keeping in mind before assuming a smooth path between them.