Armed forces personnel in Croatia

Armed forces personnel in Croatia: 103,000 people in 1992 and 20,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 20,000 people
Since 1992: −83,000 people
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

Watch it change on the map

people · IISS

Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 150,000 people in 1995, the lowest 18,000 people in 2017.

Every year

people · IISS

Year	Croatia	World
2020	20,000	27.4 million
2019	18,000	27.7 million
2018	18,200	27.7 million
2017	18,000	27.4 million
2016	18,550	27.5 million
2015	18,550	27.4 million
2014	19,550	27.3 million
2013	19,550	27.2 million
2012	19,550	28.2 million
2011	21,600	28 million
2010	21,600	28.1 million
2009	21,600	27.9 million
2008	22,000	27.5 million
2007	21,000	27.3 million
2006	21,000	27 million
2005	31,000	28.5 million
2004	30,000	27.1 million
2003	30,800	28.2 million
2002	61,000	28.3 million
2001	68,300	28.2 million
2000	101,000	29.4 million
1999	101,000	29.6 million
1998	96,180	29.9 million
1997	98,000	29.9 million
1996	104,700	30.2 million
1995	150,000	30.2 million
1994	70,000	23.2 million
1993	80,000	23.7 million
1992	103,000	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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