Our World
in Data

Latest
About

Estimated nuclear warhead stockpiles

Stockpiles include warheads assigned to military forces, but exclude retired warheads queued for dismantlement.

OurWorldInData.org/nuclear-weapons/ • CC BY

Source: Federation of American Scientists (2022)

Note: The exact number of countries' warheads is secret, and the estimates are based on publicly available information, historical records, and occasional leaks. Warheads vary substantially in their power.

chart
table
sources
Download

All our related research and data

Charts

Country position on nuclear weapons
Estimated nuclear warhead inventories
Nuclear weapons proliferation
Number of nuclear weapons tests

Our World in Data is free and accessible for everyone.

Help us do this work by making a donation.

About
Contact
Feedback
Jobs
Funding
How to use
Donate
Privacy policy

Latest work
All charts

Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Threads
GitHub
RSS Feed

Licenses: All visualizations, data, and articles produced by Our World in Data are open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited. All the software and code that we write is open source and made available via GitHub under the permissive MIT license. All other material, including data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data, is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors.

Please consult our full legal disclaimer.

Our World In Data is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity Number 1186433).

Leave us feedback

Have a question? You may find an answer in:
General FAQ or Vaccinations FAQ

Message

Your name

Email address

We use cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

By agreeing, you consent to our use of cookies and other analytics tools according to our privacy policy.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Chart

fToggle Faceting

lToggle Y log/linear

Navigation

shift+oReset to original

Selection

Timeline

zLatest/Earliest/All period