Armed forces personnel in Belarus

Armed forces personnel in Belarus: 102,000 people in 1992 and 158,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 158,000 people
Since 1992: +56,000 people
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

Watch it change on the map

people · IISS

Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 192,900 people in 2001, the lowest 65,000 people in 1994.

Every year

people · IISS

Year	Belarus	World
2020	158,000	27.4 million
2019	155,000	27.7 million
2018	155,400	27.7 million
2017	155,000	27.4 million
2016	155,400	27.5 million
2015	158,000	27.4 million
2014	158,000	27.3 million
2013	158,000	27.2 million
2012	158,000	28.2 million
2011	158,000	28 million
2010	182,900	28.1 million
2009	182,900	27.9 million
2008	183,000	27.5 million
2007	183,000	27.3 million
2006	183,000	27 million
2005	183,000	28.5 million
2004	182,000	27.1 million
2003	182,900	28.2 million
2002	189,800	28.3 million
2001	192,900	28.2 million
2000	91,100	29.4 million
1999	103,900	29.6 million
1998	91,000	29.9 million
1997	89,800	29.9 million
1996	93,500	30.2 million
1995	106,400	30.2 million
1994	65,000	23.2 million
1993	115,000	23.7 million
1992	102,000	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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