Armed forces personnel in Azerbaijan

Armed forces personnel in Azerbaijan: 43,000 people in 1992 and 82,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 82,000 people
Since 1992: +39,000 people
Rank, 2020: 55 of 170; counting from the highest
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

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people · IISS

Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 126,700 people in 1995, the lowest 43,000 people in 1992.

Every year

people · IISS

Year	Azerbaijan	World
2020	82,000	27.4 million
2019	82,000	27.7 million
2018	81,950	27.7 million
2017	82,000	27.4 million
2016	81,950	27.5 million
2015	81,950	27.4 million
2014	81,950	27.3 million
2013	81,950	27.2 million
2012	81,950	28.2 million
2011	81,950	28 million
2010	81,940	28.1 million
2009	81,940	27.9 million
2008	82,000	27.5 million
2007	82,000	27.3 million
2006	82,000	27 million
2005	82,000	28.5 million
2004	81,000	27.1 million
2003	81,500	28.2 million
2002	87,100	28.3 million
2001	87,100	28.2 million
2000	87,100	29.4 million
1999	84,900	29.6 million
1998	87,150	29.9 million
1997	106,700	29.9 million
1996	110,700	30.2 million
1995	126,700	30.2 million
1994	50,000	23.2 million
1993	45,000	23.7 million
1992	43,000	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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