Armed forces personnel in Slovenia

Armed forces personnel in Slovenia: 15,000 people in 1992 and 7,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 7,000 people
Since 1992: −8,000 people
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

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people · IISS

Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 17,000 people in 1994, the lowest 7,000 people in 2017.

Every year

people · IISS

Year	Slovenia	World
2020	7,000	27.4 million
2019	7,000	27.7 million
2018	7,250	27.7 million
2017	7,000	27.4 million
2016	13,200	27.5 million
2015	13,200	27.4 million
2014	13,550	27.3 million
2013	13,550	27.2 million
2012	13,550	28.2 million
2011	12,100	28 million
2010	12,100	28.1 million
2009	12,100	27.9 million
2008	12,000	27.5 million
2007	12,000	27.3 million
2006	11,000	27 million
2005	12,000	28.5 million
2004	10,000	27.1 million
2003	11,000	28.2 million
2002	13,500	28.3 million
2001	12,100	28.2 million
2000	13,500	29.4 million
1999	14,050	29.6 million
1998	14,050	29.9 million
1997	14,050	29.9 million
1996	14,050	30.2 million
1995	12,900	30.2 million
1994	17,000	23.2 million
1993	12,000	23.7 million
1992	15,000	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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