Guinea vs Mozambique: Armed forces personnel

Armed forces personnel in 2020: 13,000 people in Guinea and 11,000 people in Mozambique, by IISS estimates. In 2020 the value was higher in Guinea, by 2,000 people, or 1.18 times that in Mozambique.

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Guinea has been higher since 2005.
The world as a whole: 27.4 million people in 2020.

Every year

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Year	Guinea	Mozambique	World
2020	13,000	11,000	27.4 million
2019	13,000	11,000	27.7 million
2018	12,700	11,200	27.7 million
2017	13,000	11,000	27.4 million
2016	12,300	11,200	27.5 million
2015	12,300	11,200	27.4 million
2014	12,300	11,200	27.3 million
2013	12,300	11,200	27.2 million
2012	12,300	11,200	28.2 million
2011	12,300	11,200	28 million
2010	19,300	11,200	28.1 million
2009	19,300	11,200	27.9 million
2008	19,000	11,000	27.5 million
2007	19,000	11,000	27.3 million
2006	–	11,000	27 million
2005	13,000	11,000	28.5 million
2004	11,000	11,000	27.1 million
2003	12,300	8,200	28.2 million
2002	19,300	11,000	28.3 million
2001	17,300	11,000	28.2 million
2000	19,300	6,100	29.4 million
1999	19,300	6,100	29.6 million
1998	19,300	6,100	29.9 million
1997	19,300	6,100	29.9 million
1996	19,300	11,000	30.2 million
1995	19,300	12,000	30.2 million
1994	12,000	11,000	23.2 million
1993	15,000	50,000	23.7 million
1992	15,000	50,000	24.5 million
1991	15,000	65,000	22.7 million
1990	15,000	65,000	23.9 million
1989	15,000	65,000	24.3 million
1985	9,900	15,800	22.2 million
1984	28,000	34,000	–
1983	28,000	32,000	–
1982	28,000	30,000	–
1981	28,000	30,000	–
1980	28,000	30,000	–
1979	18,000	30,000	–
1978	18,000	25,000	–
1977	10,000	26,000	–
1976	10,000	21,000	–
1975	7,000	20,000	–
1974	17,000	–	–
1973	17,000	–	–
1972	17,000	–	–
1971	9,000	–	–
1970	9,000	–	–
1969	9,000	–	–
1968	9,000	–	–
1967	5,000	–	–
1966	9,000	–	–
1965	9,000	–	–
1964	8,000	–	–
1963	10,000	–	–
1962	5,000	–	–
1961	5,000	–	–
1960	3,000	–	–
1959	2,000	–	–
1958	2,000	–	–

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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 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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