Bosnia & Herzegovina

Armed forces personnel in Bosnia & Herzegovina

Armed forces personnel in Bosnia & Herzegovina: 60,000 people in 1992 and 11,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 11,000 people
Since 1992: −49,000 people
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

Watch it change on the map

people · IISS

Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 227,000 people in 1996, the lowest 9,000 people in 2006.

Every year

people · IISS

Year	Bosnia & Herzegovina	World
2020	11,000	27.4 million
2019	11,000	27.7 million
2018	10,500	27.7 million
2017	11,000	27.4 million
2016	10,500	27.5 million
2015	10,500	27.4 million
2014	10,500	27.3 million
2013	10,500	27.2 million
2012	10,500	28.2 million
2011	10,550	28 million
2010	10,580	28.1 million
2009	10,580	27.9 million
2008	9,000	27.5 million
2007	9,000	27.3 million
2006	9,000	27 million
2005	12,000	28.5 million
2004	24,000	27.1 million
2003	18,800	28.2 million
2002	19,800	28.3 million
2001	24,000	28.2 million
2000	76,000	29.4 million
1999	86,000	29.6 million
1998	86,000	29.9 million
1997	86,000	29.9 million
1996	227,000	30.2 million
1995	92,000	30.2 million
1994	70,000	23.2 million
1993	–	23.7 million
1992	60,000	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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