Seychelles
Armed forces personnel in Seychelles
Armed forces personnel in Seychelles: 1,200 people in 1985 and 0 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.
- Latest, 2020
- 0 people
- Since 1985
- −1,200 people
- World, 2020
- 27.4 million people
people · IISS
What the numbers say
- The highest was 1,300 people in 1995, the lowest 0 people in 2017.
- Older estimates from Correlates of War reach back to 1976: 0 people.
Every year
people · IISS
| Year | Seychelles | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 27.4 million |
| 2019 | 0 | 27.7 million |
| 2018 | 420 | 27.7 million |
| 2017 | 0 | 27.4 million |
| 2016 | 840 | 27.5 million |
| 2015 | 840 | 27.4 million |
| 2014 | 840 | 27.3 million |
| 2013 | 840 | 27.2 million |
| 2012 | 840 | 28.2 million |
| 2011 | 870 | 28 million |
| 2010 | 650 | 28.1 million |
| 2009 | 650 | 27.9 million |
| 2008 | 450 | 27.5 million |
| 2007 | 450 | 27.3 million |
| 2006 | – | 27 million |
| 2005 | 450 | 28.5 million |
| 2004 | 650 | 27.1 million |
| 2003 | 800 | 28.2 million |
| 2002 | 800 | 28.3 million |
| 2001 | 500 | 28.2 million |
| 2000 | 500 | 29.4 million |
| 1999 | 500 | 29.6 million |
| 1998 | 450 | 29.9 million |
| 1997 | 450 | 29.9 million |
| 1996 | 1,300 | 30.2 million |
| 1995 | 1,300 | 30.2 million |
| 1994 | – | 23.2 million |
| 1993 | – | 23.7 million |
| 1992 | – | 24.5 million |
| 1991 | – | 22.7 million |
| 1990 | – | 23.9 million |
| 1989 | – | 24.3 million |
| 1985 | 1,200 | 22.2 million |
| 1984 | 1,000 | – |
| 1983 | 1,000 | – |
| 1982 | 1,000 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
- 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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