Libya

Armed forces personnel in Libya

Armed forces personnel in Libya: 73,000 people in 1985 and 0 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020
0 people
Since 1985
−73,000 people
World, 2020
27.4 million people
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people · IISS

Armed forces personnel in LibyaArmed forces personnel in Libya: 73,000 people in 1985 and 0 people in 2020, by IISS estimates. The highest was 86,000 people in 1989, the lowest 0 people in 2014.
Estimates, IISSEstimates, Correlates of WarWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 86,000 people in 1989, the lowest 0 people in 2014.
  • Older estimates from Correlates of War reach back to 1951: 3,000 people.

Every year

people · IISS

YearLibyaWorld
2020027.4 million
2019–27.7 million
2018–27.7 million
2017–27.4 million
2016–27.5 million
2015–27.4 million
2014027.3 million
20137,00027.2 million
20127,00028.2 million
2011–28 million
2010–28.1 million
200976,00027.9 million
200876,00027.5 million
200776,00027.3 million
200676,00027 million
200576,00028.5 million
200476,00027.1 million
200376,50028.2 million
200276,50028.3 million
200176,50028.2 million
200076,50029.4 million
199965,50029.6 million
199865,50029.9 million
199765,50029.9 million
199665,50030.2 million
199580,50030.2 million
199480,00023.2 million
199385,00023.7 million
199285,00024.5 million
199186,00022.7 million
199086,00023.9 million
198986,00024.3 million
198573,00022.2 million
198490,000–
198368,000–
198255,000–
198155,000–
198053,000–
197951,000–
197850,000–
197730,000–
197625,000–
197525,000–
197425,000–
197320,000–
197220,000–
197119,000–
197018,000–
196925,000–
196830,000–
196720,000–
196620,000–
196517,000–
196416,000–
196313,000–
19628,000–
19618,000–
19605,000–
19595,000–
19583,000–
19573,000–
19563,000–
19553,000–
19543,000–
19533,000–
19523,000–
19513,000–
  • 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 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.

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