Armed forces personnel in Slovakia

Armed forces personnel in Slovakia: 33,000 people in 1993 and 18,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 18,000 people
Since 1993: −15,000 people
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

Watch it change on the map

people · IISS

Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 51,000 people in 1995, the lowest 15,800 people in 2010.

Every year

people · IISS

Year	Slovakia	World
2020	18,000	27.4 million
2019	16,000	27.7 million
2018	15,850	27.7 million
2017	16,000	27.4 million
2016	15,850	27.5 million
2015	15,850	27.4 million
2014	15,850	27.3 million
2013	15,850	27.2 million
2012	15,850	28.2 million
2011	15,850	28 million
2010	15,800	28.1 million
2009	16,530	27.9 million
2008	17,000	27.5 million
2007	17,000	27.3 million
2006	17,000	27 million
2005	20,000	28.5 million
2004	20,000	27.1 million
2003	22,000	28.2 million
2002	30,900	28.3 million
2001	37,700	28.2 million
2000	41,200	29.4 million
1999	47,480	29.6 million
1998	48,050	29.9 million
1997	45,150	29.9 million
1996	46,600	30.2 million
1995	51,000	30.2 million
1994	47,000	23.2 million
1993	33,000	23.7 million
1992	–	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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