North Macedonia

Armed forces personnel in North Macedonia

Armed forces personnel in North Macedonia: 10,000 people in 1992 and 16,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 16,000 people
Since 1992: +6,000 people
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

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people · IISS

Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 27,500 people in 1998, the lowest 8,000 people in 2009.

Every year

people · IISS

Year	North Macedonia	World
2020	16,000	27.4 million
2019	16,000	27.7 million
2018	16,000	27.7 million
2017	16,000	27.4 million
2016	15,600	27.5 million
2015	15,600	27.4 million
2014	8,000	27.3 million
2013	8,000	27.2 million
2012	8,000	28.2 million
2011	8,000	28 million
2010	8,000	28.1 million
2009	8,000	27.9 million
2008	19,000	27.5 million
2007	19,000	27.3 million
2006	19,000	27 million
2005	19,000	28.5 million
2004	17,000	27.1 million
2003	20,400	28.2 million
2002	19,900	28.3 million
2001	26,000	28.2 million
2000	23,500	29.4 million
1999	23,500	29.6 million
1998	27,500	29.9 million
1997	22,900	29.9 million
1996	17,900	30.2 million
1995	17,900	30.2 million
1994	10,000	23.2 million
1993	10,000	23.7 million
1992	10,000	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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