Armed forces personnel in Kyrgyzstan

Armed forces personnel in Kyrgyzstan: 12,000 people in 1992 and 21,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 21,000 people
Since 1992: +9,000 people
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

Watch it change on the map

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Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 21,000 people in 2006, the lowest 7,000 people in 1995.

Every year

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Year	Kyrgyzstan	World
2020	21,000	27.4 million
2019	21,000	27.7 million
2018	20,900	27.7 million
2017	21,000	27.4 million
2016	20,400	27.5 million
2015	20,400	27.4 million
2014	20,400	27.3 million
2013	20,400	27.2 million
2012	20,400	28.2 million
2011	20,400	28 million
2010	20,400	28.1 million
2009	20,400	27.9 million
2008	21,000	27.5 million
2007	21,000	27.3 million
2006	21,000	27 million
2005	18,000	28.5 million
2004	17,000	27.1 million
2003	15,900	28.2 million
2002	15,900	28.3 million
2001	14,000	28.2 million
2000	14,000	29.4 million
1999	12,200	29.6 million
1998	14,200	29.9 million
1997	14,200	29.9 million
1996	12,000	30.2 million
1995	7,000	30.2 million
1994	13,000	23.2 million
1993	12,000	23.7 million
1992	12,000	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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