Eswatini

Armed forces personnel in Eswatini

Armed forces personnel in Eswatini: 4,000 people in 1989 and 3,000 people in 1999, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 1999
3,000 people
Since 1989
−1,000 people
World, 1999
29.6 million people
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people · IISS

Armed forces personnel in EswatiniArmed forces personnel in Eswatini: 4,000 people in 1989 and 3,000 people in 1999, by IISS estimates. The highest was 4,000 people in 1989, the lowest 3,000 people in 1990.
Estimates, IISSEstimates, Correlates of WarWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 4,000 people in 1989, the lowest 3,000 people in 1990.
  • Older estimates from Correlates of War reach back to 1968: 0 people.

Every year

people · IISS

YearEswatiniWorld
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
2000–29.4 million
19993,00029.6 million
19983,00029.9 million
19973,00029.9 million
19963,00030.2 million
19953,00030.2 million
19943,00023.2 million
19933,00023.7 million
19923,00024.5 million
19913,00022.7 million
19903,00023.9 million
19894,00024.3 million
19883,000–
19873,000–
19863,000–
19853,00022.2 million
19843,000–
19833,000–
19822,000–
19812,000–
19802,000–
19792,000–
19782,000–
19772,000–
19762,000–
19751,000–
19741,000–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
  • 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 1989: 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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