Eswatini vs Mozambique

Eswatini vs Mozambique: Armed forces personnel

Armed forces personnel: 3,000 people in Eswatini in 1999 and 11,000 people in Mozambique in 2020, by IISS estimates. In 1999 the value was higher in Mozambique, by 3,100 people, or 2.03 times that in Eswatini.

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people · IISS

Eswatini vs Mozambique: Armed forces personnelArmed forces personnel: 3,000 people in Eswatini in 1999 and 11,000 people in Mozambique in 2020, by IISS estimates. In 1999 the value was higher in Mozambique, by 3,100 people, or 2.03 times that in Eswatini.
EswatiniMozambiqueEstimates, Correlates of WarWorld

What the numbers say

  • Mozambique has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1989.
  • The world as a whole: 29.6 million people in 1999.

Every year

people · IISS

YearEswatiniMozambiqueWorld
2020–11,00027.4 million
2019–11,00027.7 million
2018–11,20027.7 million
2017–11,00027.4 million
2016–11,20027.5 million
2015–11,20027.4 million
2014–11,20027.3 million
2013–11,20027.2 million
2012–11,20028.2 million
2011–11,20028 million
2010–11,20028.1 million
2009–11,20027.9 million
2008–11,00027.5 million
2007–11,00027.3 million
2006–11,00027 million
2005–11,00028.5 million
2004–11,00027.1 million
2003–8,20028.2 million
2002–11,00028.3 million
2001–11,00028.2 million
2000–6,10029.4 million
19993,0006,10029.6 million
19983,0006,10029.9 million
19973,0006,10029.9 million
19963,00011,00030.2 million
19953,00012,00030.2 million
19943,00011,00023.2 million
19933,00050,00023.7 million
19923,00050,00024.5 million
19913,00065,00022.7 million
19903,00065,00023.9 million
19894,00065,00024.3 million
19883,000––
19873,000––
19863,000––
19853,00015,80022.2 million
19843,00034,000–
19833,00032,000–
19822,00030,000–
19812,00030,000–
19802,00030,000–
19792,00030,000–
19782,00025,000–
19772,00026,000–
19762,00021,000–
19751,00020,000–
19741,000––
19730––
19720––
19710––
19700––
19690––
19680––
  • 12.3Estimates, Correlates of War

Each country on its own

Good to know

  • 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 1985: 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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