Guinea vs Sudan: Armed forces personnel

Armed forces personnel in 2020: 13,000 people in Guinea and 144,000 people in Sudan, by IISS estimates. In 2020 the value was higher in Sudan, by 131,000 people, or 11 times that in Guinea.

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Sudan has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1985.
The world as a whole: 27.4 million people in 2020.

Every year

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Year	Guinea	Sudan	World
2020	13,000	144,000	27.4 million
2019	13,000	124,000	27.7 million
2018	12,700	124,300	27.7 million
2017	13,000	124,000	27.4 million
2016	12,300	124,300	27.5 million
2015	12,300	264,300	27.4 million
2014	12,300	264,300	27.3 million
2013	12,300	264,300	27.2 million
2012	12,300	264,300	28.2 million
2011	12,300	264,300	28 million
2010	19,300	126,800	28.1 million
2009	19,300	126,800	27.9 million
2008	19,000	127,000	27.5 million
2007	19,000	127,000	27.3 million
2006	–	–	27 million
2005	13,000	123,000	28.5 million
2004	11,000	121,000	27.1 million
2003	12,300	114,500	28.2 million
2002	19,300	124,000	28.3 million
2001	17,300	124,000	28.2 million
2000	19,300	119,500	29.4 million
1999	19,300	109,700	29.6 million
1998	19,300	109,700	29.9 million
1997	19,300	94,700	29.9 million
1996	19,300	104,000	30.2 million
1995	19,300	133,500	30.2 million
1994	12,000	82,000	23.2 million
1993	15,000	82,000	23.7 million
1992	15,000	82,000	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	56,600	22.2 million
1984	28,000	65,000	–
1983	28,000	86,000	–
1982	28,000	86,000	–
1981	28,000	87,000	–
1980	28,000	65,000	–
1979	18,000	65,000	–
1978	18,000	71,000	–
1977	10,000	50,000	–
1976	10,000	50,000	–
1975	7,000	50,000	–
1974	17,000	35,000	–
1973	17,000	35,000	–
1972	17,000	35,000	–
1971	9,000	35,000	–
1970	9,000	25,000	–
1969	9,000	25,000	–
1968	9,000	20,000	–
1967	5,000	20,000	–
1966	9,000	20,000	–
1965	9,000	18,000	–
1964	8,000	18,000	–
1963	10,000	17,000	–
1962	5,000	18,000	–
1961	5,000	18,000	–
1960	3,000	10,000	–
1959	2,000	10,000	–
1958	2,000	9,000	–
1957	–	9,000	–
1956	–	9,000	–

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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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