Kazakhstan vs Tajikistan: Armed forces personnel

Armed forces personnel in 2020: 71,000 people in Kazakhstan and 17,000 people in Tajikistan, by IISS estimates. In 2020 the value was higher in Kazakhstan, by 54,000 people, or 4.18 times that in Tajikistan.

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Kazakhstan has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1993.
The world as a whole: 27.4 million people in 2020.

Every year

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Year	Kazakhstan	Tajikistan	World
2020	71,000	17,000	27.4 million
2019	71,000	17,000	27.7 million
2018	71,000	16,800	27.7 million
2017	71,000	17,000	27.4 million
2016	70,500	16,300	27.5 million
2015	70,500	16,300	27.4 million
2014	70,500	16,300	27.3 million
2013	70,500	16,300	27.2 million
2012	70,500	16,300	28.2 million
2011	70,500	16,300	28 million
2010	80,500	16,300	28.1 million
2009	80,500	16,300	27.9 million
2008	81,000	17,000	27.5 million
2007	81,000	17,000	27.3 million
2006	81,000	17,000	27 million
2005	101,000	13,000	28.5 million
2004	99,000	12,000	27.1 million
2003	100,300	7,200	28.2 million
2002	94,500	7,200	28.3 million
2001	98,500	7,200	28.2 million
2000	98,500	7,200	29.4 million
1999	100,300	10,200	29.6 million
1998	89,600	10,200	29.9 million
1997	69,600	10,200	29.9 million
1996	74,500	23,500	30.2 million
1995	74,500	18,000	30.2 million
1994	18,000	3,000	23.2 million
1993	15,000	3,000	23.7 million
1992	40,000	3,000	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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