Bhutan
Armed forces personnel in Bhutan
Armed forces personnel in Bhutan: 3,000 people in 1985 and 6,000 people in 2000, by IISS estimates.
- Latest, 2000
- 6,000 people
- Since 1985
- +3,000 people
- World, 2000
- 29.4 million people
people · IISS
What the numbers say
- The highest was 7,000 people in 1998, the lowest 3,000 people in 1985.
- Older estimates from Correlates of War reach back to 1971: 5,000 people.
Every year
people · IISS
| Year | Bhutan | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | – | 27.4 million |
| 2019 | – | 27.7 million |
| 2018 | – | 27.7 million |
| 2017 | – | 27.4 million |
| 2016 | – | 27.5 million |
| 2015 | – | 27.4 million |
| 2014 | – | 27.3 million |
| 2013 | – | 27.2 million |
| 2012 | – | 28.2 million |
| 2011 | – | 28 million |
| 2010 | – | 28.1 million |
| 2009 | – | 27.9 million |
| 2008 | – | 27.5 million |
| 2007 | – | 27.3 million |
| 2006 | – | 27 million |
| 2005 | – | 28.5 million |
| 2004 | – | 27.1 million |
| 2003 | – | 28.2 million |
| 2002 | – | 28.3 million |
| 2001 | – | 28.2 million |
| 2000 | 6,000 | 29.4 million |
| 1999 | 7,000 | 29.6 million |
| 1998 | 7,000 | 29.9 million |
| 1997 | 6,000 | 29.9 million |
| 1996 | 5,000 | 30.2 million |
| 1995 | 4,000 | 30.2 million |
| 1994 | 5,000 | 23.2 million |
| 1993 | 5,000 | 23.7 million |
| 1992 | 5,000 | 24.5 million |
| 1991 | – | 22.7 million |
| 1990 | – | 23.9 million |
| 1989 | – | 24.3 million |
| 1985 | 3,000 | 22.2 million |
| 1984 | 4,000 | – |
| 1983 | 4,000 | – |
| 1982 | 4,000 | – |
| 1981 | 4,000 | – |
| 1980 | 4,000 | – |
| 1979 | 4,000 | – |
| 1978 | 4,000 | – |
| 1977 | 4,000 | – |
| 1976 | 5,000 | – |
| 1975 | 5,000 | – |
| 1974 | 5,000 | – |
| 1973 | 5,000 | – |
| 1972 | 5,000 | – |
| 1971 | 5,000 | – |
- 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.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
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