Armenia vs Georgia: Armed forces personnel

Armed forces personnel in 2020: 47,000 people in Armenia and 26,000 people in Georgia, by IISS estimates. In 2020 the value was higher in Armenia, by 21,000 people, or 1.81 times that in Georgia.

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Armenia has been higher since 1994, when it overtook Georgia.
The world as a whole: 27.4 million people in 2020.

Every year

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Year	Armenia	Georgia	World
2020	47,000	26,000	27.4 million
2019	49,000	26,000	27.7 million
2018	48,800	25,650	27.7 million
2017	49,000	26,000	27.4 million
2016	49,100	26,050	27.5 million
2015	49,100	26,050	27.4 million
2014	49,100	32,350	27.3 million
2013	49,100	32,350	27.2 million
2012	49,100	32,350	28.2 million
2011	55,540	32,350	28 million
2010	55,530	32,360	28.1 million
2009	55,570	32,360	27.9 million
2008	42,000	33,000	27.5 million
2007	42,000	33,000	27.3 million
2006	47,000	33,000	27 million
2005	49,000	23,000	28.5 million
2004	49,000	22,000	27.1 million
2003	45,600	29,200	28.2 million
2002	45,600	29,200	28.3 million
2001	43,000	28,500	28.2 million
2000	42,300	33,400	29.4 million
1999	54,400	32,800	29.6 million
1998	54,400	39,200	29.9 million
1997	61,000	39,200	29.9 million
1996	58,400	15,000	30.2 million
1995	61,000	14,000	30.2 million
1994	45,000	7,000	23.2 million
1993	21,000	25,000	23.7 million
1992	20,000	25,000	24.5 million
1991	–	–	22.7 million
1990	–	–	23.9 million
1989	–	–	24.3 million
1985	–	–	22.2 million

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Active-duty military personnel, with paramilitary forces where they are trained and equipped like soldiers, by the IISS Military Balance.
Source: IISS, The Military Balance, via the World Bank.
Before 1992: Correlates of War Project, National Material Capabilities v7.0; Singer, Bremer and Stuckey (1972), “Capability Distribution, Uncertainty, and Major Power War, 1820–1965”, in Bruce Russett (ed.), Peace, War, and Numbers, Sage, 19–48.
Ranks count the 170 countries with a value in 2020, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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