Poland leads the world with unprecedented arms purchases in 2025

This came in estimates by experts from the Center for Analysis of the Global Arms Trade, which were published in the Russian National Defense magazine.

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The magazine said: “For the second time in the annual rankings, Poland ranked first in the world in the actual volume of arms imports by the end of 2025. According to available data, the volume of confirmed military imports to Poland in 2025 amounted to about $11.910 billion, which is equivalent to 9.97% of the total volume of imports of military products in the entire world (which amounted to $119.5 billion). This represents an absolute record for Warsaw in the volume of its annual imports from Weapons, both in terms of monetary value and in terms of their percentage share of total global supplies.”

The experts added in their report that among the largest contracts being implemented is the receipt of the fourth and final batch for the year 2025, consisting of 32 Abrams tanks. Thus, the annual volume of supplies received from these tanks increased to 117 tanks.

Experts pointed out that in November 2025, the South Korean company Hyundai Rotem also delivered another batch of 20 K2 tanks to Poland, thus closing the first contract concluded between the two parties in August 2022.

The report noted that the second contract, signed on August 1, 2025 and worth about $6.5 billion, stipulates the delivery of other batches of tanks during the period between 2026 and 2030.

The report said: “For comparison, the volume of Poland’s military imports in 2022 amounted to about $2.168 billion (ie 2% of the volume of global imports), in 2023 it reached $3.036 billion (3.32%), and in 2024 it reached $7.503 billion (7.81%). In general, Poland imported weapons during the last four-year period with a total value of $24.617 billion.” (Equivalent to 5.93% of the total volume of global imports.) With this volume of imports for the period between 2022 and 2025, Poland ranks fourth in the relevant global rankings.”