Armed forces personnel in Brunei

• The highest was 12,100 people in 2016, the lowest 4,000 people in 1989.
• Older estimates from Correlates of War reach back to 1984: 4,000 people.

• 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.
• 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time