Côte d’Ivoire

Armed forces personnel in Côte d’Ivoire

Armed forces personnel in Côte d’Ivoire: 15,000 people in 1989 and 27,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020
27,000 people
Since 1989
+12,000 people
World, 2020
27.4 million people
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people · IISS

Armed forces personnel in Côte d’IvoireArmed forces personnel in Côte d’Ivoire: 15,000 people in 1989 and 27,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates. The highest was 134,000 people in 2019, the lowest 15,000 people in 1989.
Estimates, IISSEstimates, Correlates of WarWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 134,000 people in 2019, the lowest 15,000 people in 1989.
  • Older estimates from Correlates of War reach back to 1960: 1,000 people.

Every year

people · IISS

YearCôte d’IvoireWorld
202027,00027.4 million
2019134,00027.7 million
201827,00027.7 million
201727,00027.4 million
201625,00027.5 million
201525,00027.4 million
201425,00027.3 million
2013–27.2 million
2012–28.2 million
2011–28 million
2010–28.1 million
200918,55027.9 million
200819,00027.5 million
200719,00027.3 million
2006–27 million
200519,00028.5 million
200418,00027.1 million
2003–28.2 million
2002–28.3 million
2001–28.2 million
2000–29.4 million
199915,00029.6 million
199815,00029.9 million
199715,00029.9 million
199615,00030.2 million
199515,00030.2 million
199415,00023.2 million
199315,00023.7 million
199215,00024.5 million
199115,00022.7 million
199015,00023.9 million
198915,00024.3 million
19888,000–
19878,000–
19868,000–
19858,00022.2 million
19848,000–
19838,000–
19827,000–
19817,000–
19806,000–
19796,000–
19788,000–
19779,000–
19768,000–
19757,000–
19747,000–
19736,000–
19726,000–
19716,000–
19706,000–
19695,000–
19687,000–
19675,000–
19666,000–
19655,000–
19647,000–
19637,000–
19624,000–
19614,000–
19601,000–
  • 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 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.
  • 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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