Armed forces personnel in Armenia

Armed forces personnel in Armenia: 20,000 people in 1992 and 47,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 47,000 people
Since 1992: +27,000 people
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

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people · IISS

Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 61,000 people in 1995, the lowest 20,000 people in 1992.

Every year

people · IISS

Year	Armenia	World
2020	47,000	27.4 million
2019	49,000	27.7 million
2018	48,800	27.7 million
2017	49,000	27.4 million
2016	49,100	27.5 million
2015	49,100	27.4 million
2014	49,100	27.3 million
2013	49,100	27.2 million
2012	49,100	28.2 million
2011	55,540	28 million
2010	55,530	28.1 million
2009	55,570	27.9 million
2008	42,000	27.5 million
2007	42,000	27.3 million
2006	47,000	27 million
2005	49,000	28.5 million
2004	49,000	27.1 million
2003	45,600	28.2 million
2002	45,600	28.3 million
2001	43,000	28.2 million
2000	42,300	29.4 million
1999	54,400	29.6 million
1998	54,400	29.9 million
1997	61,000	29.9 million
1996	58,400	30.2 million
1995	61,000	30.2 million
1994	45,000	23.2 million
1993	21,000	23.7 million
1992	20,000	24.5 million
1991	–	22.7 million
1990	–	23.9 million
1989	–	24.3 million
1985	–	22.2 million

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.
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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