Algeria

Armed forces personnel in Algeria

Armed forces personnel in Algeria: 170,000 people in 1985 and 326,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020
326,000 people
Since 1985
+156,000 people
Rank, 2020
21 of 170
counting from the highest
World, 2020
27.4 million people
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people · IISS

Armed forces personnel in AlgeriaArmed forces personnel in Algeria: 170,000 people in 1985 and 326,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates. The highest was 334,200 people in 2009, the lowest 126,000 people in 1989.
Estimates, IISSEstimates, Correlates of WarWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 334,200 people in 2009, the lowest 126,000 people in 1989.
  • Older estimates from Correlates of War reach back to 1962: 45,000 people.

Every year

people · IISS

YearAlgeriaWorld
2020326,00027.4 million
2019317,00027.7 million
2018317,00027.7 million
2017317,00027.4 million
2016317,20027.5 million
2015317,20027.4 million
2014317,20027.3 million
2013317,20027.2 million
2012317,20028.2 million
2011317,20028 million
2010317,20028.1 million
2009334,20027.9 million
2008334,00027.5 million
2007334,00027.3 million
2006334,00027 million
2005319,00028.5 million
2004318,00027.1 million
2003308,70028.2 million
2002317,90028.3 million
2001305,20028.2 million
2000305,20029.4 million
1999303,20029.6 million
1998268,20029.9 million
1997270,20029.9 million
1996164,90030.2 million
1995162,90030.2 million
1994126,00023.2 million
1993126,00023.7 million
1992126,00024.5 million
1991126,00022.7 million
1990126,00023.9 million
1989126,00024.3 million
1985170,00022.2 million
1984170,000–
1983130,000–
1982120,000–
1981101,000–
1980101,000–
197988,000–
197876,000–
197775,000–
197685,000–
197580,000–
197480,000–
197380,000–
197280,000–
197180,000–
197080,000–
196980,000–
196875,000–
196775,000–
196675,000–
196560,000–
196465,000–
196370,000–
196245,000–
  • 12.3Estimates, Correlates of War

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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