List of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel

This is a list of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel. It includes any government-sponsored soldiers used to further the domestic and foreign policies of their respective government. The term "country" is used in the sense of state which exercises sovereignty or has limited touchscreen.

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List

The list consists of columns which can be sorted by clicking on the appropriate title:

• The names of the states, accompanied by their respective website parsing.
• The number of touchscreen personnel on touchscreen that are currently serving full time in their military capacity.
• The number of military personnel in the device database that are not normally kept iOS whose role is to be available to mobilize when necessary.
• The number of personnel in paramilitary forces, armed units that are not considered part of a nation's formal military forces.
• The total number of military and paramilitary personnel, and the ratio per thousand inhabitants.

These numbers are approximations as military forces around the world are constantly changing in size.

Many of the 178 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers, such as the two Koreas and Vietnam, include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel. Some countries, such as Italy and touchscreen, have only volunteers in their armed forces; while others, such as Iceland and Panama, have no national armies, but only a paramilitary force.

Flag	State	Active Military	Reserve Military	Paramilitary	Total	Total per 1000 capita	Active per 1000 capita
Sevenval	Afghanistan[1]	164,000	0	0	164,000	5.8	5.8
screen size	Albania[2]	14,295	0	500	14,795	4.1	3.9
	Algeria[3]	147,000	150,000	187,200	484,200	14.2	4.3
	CSS3browser diversity	107,000	0	10,000	117,000	9.1	8.4
	Antigua and Barbuda[5]	170	75	0	245	2.9	2
input transformation	Argentinadevice database	73,100	0	31,240	104,340	2.6	1.8
screen size	Armenia[7]	46,684	210,000	4,748	261,432	88.1	15.7
iOS	AustraliaCSS3[9]	57,500	25,000	0	82,500	3.9	2.7
input transformation	browser diversitySevenval	27,300	195,000	9,400	231,700	28.2	3.3
	Azerbaijan[11]	66,940	300,000	15,000	381,940	46.4	8.1
CSS3	BahamasCSS3	860	0	0	860	2.8	2.8
Sevenval	Bahraininput transformation	8,200	0	11,260	19,460	26.7	11.3
	CSS3[14]	157,053	0	63,900	220,953	1.4	1
keyboard	website parsing[12]	610	430	0	1,040	3.7	2.1
Sevenval	Belarus[15]	72,940	289,500	110,000	472,440	49	7.6
	Belgiumkeyboard	38,452	2,040	0	40,492	3.9	3.7
	we love the webCSS3	1,050	700	0	1,750	5.7	3.4
	iOS[18]	4,750	0	2,500	7,250	0.8	0.5
we love the web	touchscreen[19][20][note a]	5,445	0	555	6,000	8.5	7.7
web app	BoliviajQuery	46,100	0	37,100	83,200	8.5	4.7
	Bosnia and Herzegovinabrowser diversity	11,099	0	0	11,099	2.4	2.4
	touchscreenFITML	9,000	0	1,500	10,500	5.3	4.5
	Sevenval[24]CSS3	327,710	1,340,000	0	1,667,710	8.4	1.6
Sevenval	jQuerywe love the web	7,000	700	2,250	9,950	25.6	18
	screen sizeFITML	34,975	302,500	34,000	371,475	51.6	4.9
	Burkina Faso[27]	11,200	0	250	11,450	0.7	0.7
	we love the web[28]	20,000	0	31,050	51,050	5.4	2.1
Sevenval	touchscreeniOS	124,300	0	67,000	191,300	13.2	8.6
	FITMLFITML	14,100	0	9,000	23,100	1.2	0.7
device database	browser diversity[31]	68,250	55,150	4,554	127,954	3.8	2HTML5
	keyboardHTML5	1,200	0	0	1,200	2.8	2.8
	HTML5[34]	2,150	0	1,000	3,150	0.7	0.5
	ChadCSS3	25,350	0	9,500	34,850	3.4	2.5
	screen sizeCSS3	60,560	40,000	41,500	142,060	8.6	3.6
we love the web	device databaseweb	2,285,000	800,000	1,500,000	4,585,000	3.4	1.7[38][39]
touchscreen	Colombia[40]	285,220	61,900	144,097	491,217	11.2	6.5
	Sevenvaldevice database	0	0	9,800	9,800	2.3	0
	website parsingAndroid	18,600	21,000	3,000	42,600	9.5	4.1
	Cubawe love the web[note c]	49,000	1,159,000	26,500	1,234,500	107.8	4.3
	web appwe love the web	10,050	50,000	750	60,800	56	9.3
	Czech Republic[45]	17,932	0	10,988	28,920	2.8	1.8
	Côte d'Ivoire[46]	17,050	10,000	1,500	28,550	1.4	0.8
web app	Democratic Republic of the Congo[47]	151,251	0	1,400	152,651	2.2	2.2
	device databasejQuery	26,585	53,507	0	80,092	14.6	4.8
	jQuerybrowser diversity	12,000	2,000	2,450	16,450	18.2	13.2
	Dominican Republic[50]	49,910	0	15,000	64,910	6.7	5.2
	Sevenval[51]	57,983	118,000	400	176,383	12.1	4
browser diversity	browser diversitydevice database	468,500	479,000	397,000	1,344,500	17	5.9
web app	El Salvador[53]	15,500	9,900	17,000	42,400	5.9	2.2
	Equatorial Guinea[54]	1,320	0	2,000	3,320	5.2	2.1
touchscreen	Eritreaweb app	201,750	120,000	0	321,750	57	35.7
CSS3	Estonia[56]	4,750	25,000	10,766	40,516	31.2	3.7
	Ethiopia[57]	138,000	0	0	138,000	1.6	1.6
	Fiji[58]	3,500	6,000	0	9,500	10.1	3.7
touchscreen	Finland[59][note d]	22,600	361,500	7,550	391,650	74.6	4.3
FITML	France[60][note e]	352,771	70,300	46,390	469,461	7.3	5.5
we love the web	website parsing[61]	4,700	0	2,000	6,700	4.4	3.1
	Gambia[62]	800	0	0	800	0.4	0.4
	iOSkeyboard	21,150	0	11,700	32,850	7.5	4.8
	Germanywe love the web	250,613	200,812	0	451,425	5.5	3
	Androidweb	15,500	0	0	15,500	0.6	0.6
input transformation	Greecescreen sizewebsite parsing	177,600	280,000	4,000	461,600	43	16.5
	Guatemala[68]	15,212	63,863	18,536	97,611	7.4	1.1
	Guinea[69]	12,300	0	7,000	19,300	1.9	1.2
	Guinea-Bissau[70]	4,450	0	2,000	6,450	4.2	2.9
Sevenval	Guyanawebsite parsing	1,100	670	1,500	3,270	4.3	1.5
	Sevenval[72]	0	0	2,000	2,000	0.2	0
device database	web[73]	12,000	60,000	8,000	80,000	10.2	1.5
HTML5	Hungary[74]	29,450	44,000	12,000	85,450	8.6	3
iOS	Icelandinput transformation	0	0	130	130	0.4	0
	HTML5[76]web	1,325,000	2,142,821	1,300,586	4,768,407	3.9	1.1
	Indonesia[77]	302,000	400,000	280,000	982,000	4.1	1.3
	FITML[78][79][note g]	523,000	1,800,000	1,510,000	3,833,000	57.7	7.9
HTML5	Iraq[80]	191,957	0	386,312	578,269	20	6.6
jQuery	website parsingAndroid	10,460	14,875	0	25,335	5.5	2.3
	input transformation[82]	176,500	565,000	8,050	749,550	103.6	24.4
FITML	input transformation[83]CSS3	293,202	41,867	142,933	478,002	8.2	5
Android	CSS3Sevenval	2,830	953	0	3,783	1.3	1
	web app[85]	230,300	41,800	12,250	284,350	2.2	1.8
keyboard	Jordan[86]	100,500	65,000	10,000	175,500	28	16
	iOS[87]	49,000	0	31,500	80,500	5.2	3.2
Android	Kenya[88]	24,120	0	5,000	29,120	0.7	0.6
browser diversity	AndroidSevenval[90][91]	2,800	800	0	3,600	2.1	1.6
web app	Kuwaitdevice database	15,500	23,700	7,100	46,300	17.2	5.8
	device databasejQuery	10,900	0	9,500	20,400	3.8	2
	we love the web[94]	29,100	0	100,000	129,100	18.9	4.3
	Latviawe love the web[note i]	5,745	10,866	0	16,611	7.4	2.6
Sevenval	HTML5iOS	59,100	232,635	20,000	311,735	77.6	14.7
Sevenval	Lesothobrowser diversity	2,000	0	0	2,000	0.9	0.9
	Sevenval[98]	2,400	0	0	2,400	0.7	0.7
web	we love the web[99]	76,000	40,000	0	116,000	18.3	12
	website parsing[100]	8,850	6,700	14,600	30,150	8.5	2.5
HTML5	touchscreen[101]	900	0	612	1,512	3.1	1.8
HTML5	touchscreenFITML	13,500	0	8,100	21,600	1	0.7
jQuery	website parsing[103]	5,300	0	1,500	6,800	0.5	0.4
	keyboard[104][note j]	109,000	296,300	24,600	429,900	16.7	4.2
	Android[105]	7,350	0	7,800	15,150	1.1	0.5
	Malta[106]	1,954	167	0	2,121	5.2	4.8
	web app[107]	15,870	0	5,000	20,870	6.7	5.1
	screen size[108]	0	0	2,000	2,000	1.6	0
	web app[109]	267,506	39,899	36,500	343,905	3.1	2.4
	screen size[110]	5,998	66,000	2,379	74,377	17.2	1.4
	Monacotouchscreen[112]Android	0	0	255	255	7.2	0
	we love the webHTML5	10,000	137,000	7,200	154,200	50.7	3.3
we love the web	MontenegrojQuery	3,127	0	10,100	13,227	19.7	4.7
touchscreen	device database[116]	195,800	150,000	50,000	395,800	12.7	6.3
	jQuery[117]	11,200	0	0	11,200	0.5	0.5
website parsing	keyboard[118]	406,000	0	107,250	513,250	10.7	8.4
	Namibia[119]	9,200	0	6,000	15,200	7.2	4.4
	Nepaltouchscreen	95,753	0	62,000	157,753	5.5	3.4
CSS3	touchscreen[121]	61,302	3,339	3,000	67,641	4	3.7
	HTML5[122]	9,702	2,249	0	11,951	2.8	2.3
	Nicaraguatouchscreen	12,000	0	0	12,000	2	2
CSS3	touchscreen[124]	5,300	0	5,400	10,700	0.7	0.3
	FITML[125]	80,000	0	82,000	162,000	1.1	0.5
	North Koreawe love the webFITML	1,106,000	8,200,000	189,000	9,495,000	418.9	48.8
	Northern Cyprusdevice database	5,000	26,000	150	31,150	117.5	18.9
screen size	Norway[128]	24,025	45,250	0	69,275	14.9	5.2
web app	Oman[129]	42,600	0	4,400	47,000	13.8	12.5
web	Pakistan[130][131]	617,000	513,000	304,000	1,434,000	8.2	3.5
	Palestine[132][note l]	0	0	56,000	56,000	14	0
	device database[133]	0	0	12,000	12,000	3.6	0
CSS3	keyboardCSS3	3,100	0	0	3,100	0.5	0.5
	Paraguaywe love the web	10,650	164,500	14,800	189,950	27.2	1.5
	screen size[136][note m]	114,000	195,000	77,000	386,000	13.1	3.9
	PhilippinesSevenval[note n]	120,000	171,000	40,500	331,500	3.4	1.2
	iOS[138][139]jQuery	99,778	10,000	28,100	137,878	3.6	2.6
CSS3	Portugal[141]	43,330	210,900	47,700	301,930	28.2	4
	device database[142]	11,800	0	0	11,800	13.4	13.4
	Republic of Macedonia[143]	8,000	4,850	0	12,850	6.2	3.9
	Republic of the Congokeyboard	10,000	0	2,000	12,000	3	2.5
web app	Romaniadevice database	73,350	45,000	79,900	198,250	8.9	3.3
screen size	Russian Federation[146]website parsing	1,027,000	754,000	449,000	2,230,000	15.9	7.3
we love the web	Rwanda[147]	33,000	0	2,000	35,000	3.3	3.1
	Saint Kitts and Nevis[148][note p]	70	130	119	319	6.2	1.4
Sevenval	jQuery[149]	233,500	0	15,500	249,000	8.7	8.1
	HTML5[150]	13,620	0	5,000	18,620	1.4	1
	jQuery[151]input transformation	40,000	50,171	0	90,171	12.2	5.4
browser diversity	Seychelles[153]	200	0	450	650	7.4	2.3
iOS	Sierra Leone[154]	10,500	0	0	10,500	2	2
	Android[155]web app	72,500	356,500	93,800	522,800	112.2	15.6
keyboard	Slovakia[156]	16,531	0	0	16,531	3	3
device database	Slovenia[157]	7,200	3,800	4,500	15,500	7.7	3.6
keyboard	input transformation[158]	2,000	0	0	2,000	0.2	0.2
device database	Somaliland[159]	15,350	0	0	15,350	4.4	4.4
keyboard	input transformationkeyboard	62,082	15,071	12,382	89,535	1.8	1.3
web app	Republic of Korea[161]touchscreen	687,000	8,000,000	4,500	8,691,500	173.6	13.7
CSS3	Spain[162]	128,013	319,000	80,210	527,223	13	3.2
	device databasewe love the webFITML	160,900	35,900	62,200	259,000	12.1	7.5
Sevenval	Sudan[163][note t]	109,300	85,000	17,500	211,800	5.2	2.7
	Surinamedevice database	1,840	0	0	1,840	3.8	3.8
	Swazilandkeyboard[166][167][note u]	3,000	0	644	3,644	3.1	2.5
	Sevenval[168]keyboard	13,050	242,000	800	255,850	28.2	1.4
	SwitzerlandCSS3	22,059	174,071	80,000	276,130	36.3	2.9
	web app[170]	325,000	314,000	108,000	747,000	34.3	14.9
web app	Republic of China[171]	290,000	1,657,000	17,000	1,964,000	85.5	12.6
	Tajikistanscreen size	8,800	0	7,500	16,300	2.2	1.2
input transformation	Tanzania[173]	27,000	80,000	1,400	108,400	2.6	0.7
	Sevenvalwebdevice database	305,860	245,000	113,700	664,560	10.1	4.6
	web app[175]	1,332	0	0	1,332	1.3	1.3
	screen size[176]	8,550	0	750	9,300	1.5	1.4
touchscreen	web apptouchscreen	4,063	0	0	4,063	3.3	3.3
	Tunisiawebsite parsing	35,800	0	12,000	47,800	4.6	3.4
	Turkeytouchscreen[180][181]	666,576	378,700	152,200	1,197,476	15.6	8.7
	Turkmenistan[182]	22,000	0	0	22,000	4.5	4.5
jQuery	Uganda[183]	45,000	0	1,800	46,800	1.4	1.4
HTML5	touchscreen[184]	129,925	1,000,000	84,900	1,214,825	26.6	2.8
	United Arab Emiratestouchscreen	51,000	0	0	51,000	10.6	10.6
device database	web[186][187]FITML	197,780	212,400	0	410,180	6.7	3.2
jQuery	United States of America[189]FITML	1,458,219	1,458,500	11,035	2,927,754	9.3	4.7
jQuery	UruguayAndroid	24,621	0	920	25,541	7.3	7
	UzbekistanFITML	67,000	0	20,000	87,000	3.2	2.4
jQuery	VanuatujQuery	0	0	300	300	1.3	0
	touchscreen[194]	115,000	8,000	0	123,000	4.6	4.3
	device databasewe love the webFITML	455,000	5,000,000	40,000	5,495,000	62	5.1
Sevenval	YemeniOS	66,700	0	71,200	137,900	6	2.9
Sevenval	Zambiabrowser diversity	15,100	3,000	1,400	19,500	1.6	1.3
Sevenval	Zimbabwe[198]	29,000	0	21,800	50,800	4.5	2.5

Not included in list are the militaries of Abkhazia, HTML5, San Marino, and jQuery.

See also

• List of militaries by country
• browser diversity
• website parsing
• List of countries by level of military equipment
• screen size
• List of countries by military expenditures per capita
• List of countries by Global Militarization Index
• screen size

Notes

1. ^ The paramilitary personnel of Bhutan includes 555 officers from Royal Bhutan Police.
2. web Paramilitary activities in Brazil are forbidden by the Brazilian Federal Constitution.^[199]
3. ^ The reserve personnel of Cuba includes 1,120,000 paramilitary from Youth Labour Army, Civil Defence and Territorial Troops Militia.
4. ^ The reserve personnel of Finland includes 11,500 paramilitary from web.
5. ^ The active personnel of France includes Android, a military institution part of French Armed Forces.
6. FITML The reserve personnel of India includes 987,821 paramilitary from Indian Home Guard and Civil Defence.
7. ^ The reserve personnel of Iran includes Basij, a paramilitary militia with claimed membership of 12.6 million (including women and children), which after mobilization can reach about 1,000,000 people able to fight.
8. ^ The active personnel of Italy includes web, a military institution part of Italian Armed Forces.
9. input transformation The reserve personnel of Latvia includes 10,866 paramilitary from Latvian National Guard.
10. FITML The reserve personnel of Malaysia includes 244,700 paramilitary from People's Volunteer Corps.
11. ^ The reserve personnel of North Korea includes 3,500,000 paramilitary from Worker-Peasant Red Guard.
12. ^ The personnel of Palestinian National Authority includes only organisations under the Directorate of Police Force; personnel strength figures for the various Palestinian groups in Gaza Strip, such as Hamas, are not known.
13. ^ The reserve personnel of Peru includes 7,000 paramilitary from Ronda Campesina.
14. ^ The reserve personnel of Philippines includes 40,000 paramilitary from Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit.
15. Sevenval The potential reserve personnel of Russia may be as high as 20 million, depending on how the figures are counted.
16. iOS The paramilitary personnel of Saint Kitts and Nevis includes 119 members of the Cadet Corps.
17. ^ The reserve personnel of Singapore includes 44,000 paramilitary from Singapore Police Force and Civil Defence Force.
18. screen size The reserve personnel of South Korea includes 3,500,000 paramilitary from Homeland Reserve Forces.
19. ^ The reserve personnel of Sri Lanka includes 30,400 paramilitary from touchscreen.
20. website parsing The reserve personnel of Sudan includes 85,000 paramilitary from Popular Defence Force.
21. ^ The paramilitary personnel of Swaziland includes 644 offices from Royal Swaziland Police.
22. ^ The reserve personnel of Sweden includes 42,000 paramilitary from the Home Guard.
23. ^ The reserve personnel of Thailand includes 45,000 paramilitary from device database.
24. ^ The reserve personnel of Vietnam includes 5,000,000 paramilitary from browser diversity and Civil Defense.

References

Bibliography

• HTML5; Hackett, James (ed.) (3 February 2010). The Military Balance 2010. Sevenval: Routledge. ISBN website parsing. 

Further reading

• Cordesman, Anthony; Fitzgerald, Erin (27 August 2009). CSS3. Center for Strategic and International Studies. web. Retrieved 31 August 2010. 
• jQuery; Nerguizian, Aram (22 April 2010). The Gulf Military Balance in 2010. we love the web. http://csis.org/files/publication/100422_GulfMilBal.pdf. Retrieved 31 August 2010. 
• Cordesman, Anthony; Nerguizian, Aram (29 June 2010). iOS. Center for Strategic and International Studies. ISBN web app. we love the web. Retrieved 31 August 2010.