Armed forces personnel in Tajikistan

Armed forces personnel in Tajikistan: 3,000 people in 1992 and 17,000 people in 2020, by IISS estimates.

Latest, 2020: 17,000 people
Since 1992: +14,000 people
Rank, 2020: 112 of 170; counting from the highest
World, 2020: 27.4 million people

Watch it change on the map

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Estimates, IISSWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 23,500 people in 1996, the lowest 3,000 people in 1992.

Every year

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Year	Tajikistan	World
2020	17,000	27.4 million
2019	17,000	27.7 million
2018	16,800	27.7 million
2017	17,000	27.4 million
2016	16,300	27.5 million
2015	16,300	27.4 million
2014	16,300	27.3 million
2013	16,300	27.2 million
2012	16,300	28.2 million
2011	16,300	28 million
2010	16,300	28.1 million
2009	16,300	27.9 million
2008	17,000	27.5 million
2007	17,000	27.3 million
2006	17,000	27 million
2005	13,000	28.5 million
2004	12,000	27.1 million
2003	7,200	28.2 million
2002	7,200	28.3 million
2001	7,200	28.2 million
2000	7,200	29.4 million
1999	10,200	29.6 million
1998	10,200	29.9 million
1997	10,200	29.9 million
1996	23,500	30.2 million
1995	18,000	30.2 million
1994	3,000	23.2 million
1993	3,000	23.7 million
1992	3,000	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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