Bhutan vs China: Armed forces, share of workers

Armed forces, share of workers: 2.34% of the labour force in Bhutan in 2000 and 0.33% of the labour force in China in 2020, by IISS estimates. In 2000 the value was higher in Bhutan, by 1.79 percentage points, or 4.24 times that in China.

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% of the labour force · IISS

BhutanChinaWorld

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Bhutan has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1992.
The world as a whole: 1.07% of the labour force in 2000.

Every year

% of the labour force · IISS

Year	Bhutan	China	World
2020	–	0.33	0.79
2019	–	0.33	0.79
2018	–	0.35	0.8
2017	–	0.35	0.8
2016	–	0.35	0.81
2015	–	0.36	0.82
2014	–	0.38	0.82
2013	–	0.38	0.83
2012	–	0.38	0.87
2011	–	0.38	0.88
2010	–	0.38	0.89
2009	–	0.38	0.89
2008	–	0.37	0.89
2007	–	0.38	0.89
2006	–	0.47	0.95
2005	–	0.5	0.96
2004	–	0.5	0.94
2003	–	0.51	0.98
2002	–	0.52	1
2001	–	0.53	1.01
2000	2.34	0.55	1.07
1999	2.83	0.55	1.09
1998	2.93	0.55	1.13
1997	2.58	0.53	1.15
1996	2.21	0.61	1.18
1995	1.78	0.62	1.2
1994	2.22	0.44	0.94
1993	2.22	0.46	0.98
1992	2.14	0.48	1.03
1991	–	0.5	1.03
1990	–	0.55	1.11

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Active-duty military personnel as a share of everyone working or looking for work, by the IISS Military Balance.
Source: IISS, The Military Balance, via the World Bank.
Ranks count the 168 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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