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Armed forces personnel, total, per square kilometre by country

Armed forces personnel, total divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
173
Highest
82.17 units per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0 units per square kilometre
Seychelles
Median
0.2294 units per square kilometre
Years covered
36
1985–2020
Data points
6,752

What the numbers show

Armed forces personnel, total, per square kilometre is currently reported for 173 countries. The highest value is 82.17 units per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0 units per square kilometre in Seychelles.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.2294 units per square kilometre, and the mean is 1.28 units per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 85 countries rose and 79 fell. The largest increase was in Somalia (up 600.0%), and the largest decrease in Antigua and Barbuda (down 100.0%).

Armed forces personnel, total, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Singapore 82.17 units per square kilometre 2020 down 60.9% rising
2 Bahrain 24.2 units per square kilometre 2020 down 5.2% rising
3 North Korea 12.2 units per square kilometre 2020 up 6.5% rising
4 Israel 8.23 units per square kilometre 2020 down 3.5% flat
5 Lebanon 7.82 units per square kilometre 2020 up 1.1% rising
6 Malta 6.25 units per square kilometre 2020 down 6.0% rising
7 Republic of Korea 5.83 units per square kilometre 2020 down 14.1% falling
8 Sri Lanka 5.12 units per square kilometre 2020 up 44.0% rising
9 Barbados 2.33 units per square kilometre 2020 up 63.9% rising
10 El Salvador 2.03 units per square kilometre 2020 up 29.2% falling
11 Qatar 1.91 units per square kilometre 2020 up 88.4% rising
12 Bangladesh 1.74 units per square kilometre 2020 up 2.7% rising
13 Eritrea 1.67 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.1% rising
14 Armenia 1.67 units per square kilometre 2020 down 14.5% rising
15 Viet Nam 1.67 units per square kilometre 2020 down 0.0% falling
16 Brunei Darussalam 1.52 units per square kilometre 2020 down 13.5% rising
17 Mauritius 1.5 units per square kilometre 2020 up 52.5% rising
18 Dominican Republic 1.47 units per square kilometre 2020 up 80.2% rising
19 Syria 1.46 units per square kilometre 2020 down 33.3% falling
20 Rwanda 1.42 units per square kilometre 2020 unchanged rising
21 Cyprus 1.41 units per square kilometre 2020 up 2.0% rising
22 Kuwait 1.4 units per square kilometre 2020 up 10.6% rising
23 Jordan 1.31 units per square kilometre 2020 up 5.0% flat
24 Pakistan 1.22 units per square kilometre 2020 down 0.3% rising
25 Netherlands 1.22 units per square kilometre 2020 down 5.1% falling
26 Burundi 1.21 units per square kilometre 2020 down 39.3% rising
27 Italy 1.14 units per square kilometre 2020 down 5.9% falling
28 Greece 1.14 units per square kilometre 2020 down 1.8% falling
29 Cambodia 1.08 units per square kilometre 2020 down 0.2% rising
30 Iraq 1.06 units per square kilometre 2020 down 42.8% volatile
31 Sao Tome and Principe 1.04 units per square kilometre 1999 unchanged flat
32 India 1.03 units per square kilometre 2020 up 16.8% rising
33 Azerbaijan 0.9922 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.1% rising
34 Trinidad and Tobago 0.9747 units per square kilometre 2020 up 23.1% rising
35 Montenegro 0.8922 units per square kilometre 2020 down 8.3% falling
36 Thailand 0.8906 units per square kilometre 2020 up 8.4% rising
37 United Arab Emirates 0.8871 units per square kilometre 2020 up 23.5% rising
38 Egypt 0.8398 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.1% rising
39 Belgium 0.787 units per square kilometre 2020 down 33.2% falling
40 Nepal 0.7813 units per square kilometre 2020 down 29.0% rising
41 Belarus 0.7784 units per square kilometre 2020 down 13.7% rising
42 Cuba 0.7322 units per square kilometre 2020 up 3.2% volatile
43 Japan 0.716 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.2% rising
44 Myanmar 0.7094 units per square kilometre 2020 down 9.7% rising
45 Türkiye 0.6653 units per square kilometre 2020 down 16.4% falling
46 North Macedonia 0.6344 units per square kilometre 2020 up 100.0% falling
47 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.6324 units per square kilometre 2020 down 12.1% falling
48 Poland 0.6174 units per square kilometre 2020 up 55.8% falling
49 Lithuania 0.5909 units per square kilometre 2020 up 46.7% rising
50 Portugal 0.5677 units per square kilometre 2020 down 42.4% falling
51 France 0.5641 units per square kilometre 2020 down 11.1% falling
52 Djibouti 0.5608 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.4% rising
53 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.5589 units per square kilometre 2020 down 0.1% rising
54 Romania 0.5563 units per square kilometre 2020 down 16.8% falling
55 Jamaica 0.554 units per square kilometre 2020 up 112.0% rising
56 Morocco 0.5512 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.1% rising
57 Philippines 0.5265 units per square kilometre 2020 down 5.1% rising
58 Germany 0.5238 units per square kilometre 2020 down 27.4% falling
59 Ukraine 0.5143 units per square kilometre 2020 up 38.7% falling
60 Switzerland 0.5062 units per square kilometre 2020 down 20.9% volatile
61 Hungary 0.5041 units per square kilometre 2020 up 31.9% falling
62 Malaysia 0.4139 units per square kilometre 2020 up 1.8% rising
63 Guatemala 0.4013 units per square kilometre 2020 up 25.7% falling
64 Iran 0.4006 units per square kilometre 2020 up 15.9% falling
65 Spain 0.3984 units per square kilometre 2020 down 10.8% falling
66 Gambia 0.3953 units per square kilometre 2020 up 400.0% volatile
67 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.3889 units per square kilometre 2020 up 198.3% volatile
68 Luxembourg 0.3884 units per square kilometre 2020 down 33.9% flat
69 Colombia 0.3858 units per square kilometre 2020 down 3.1% rising
70 Serbia 0.3805 units per square kilometre 2020 up 14.3% rising
71 Panama 0.3775 units per square kilometre 2020 up 133.8% rising
72 Denmark 0.375 units per square kilometre 2020 down 19.5% falling
73 Slovakia 0.3744 units per square kilometre 2020 up 14.0% falling
74 Georgia 0.3742 units per square kilometre 2020 down 19.6% rising
75 Indonesia 0.36 units per square kilometre 2020 up 16.2% rising
76 Croatia 0.3574 units per square kilometre 2020 down 7.4% volatile
77 Czechia 0.3497 units per square kilometre 2020 down 5.3% volatile
78 Slovenia 0.3476 units per square kilometre 2020 down 42.1% falling
79 Bulgaria 0.3408 units per square kilometre 2020 down 43.4% falling
80 Tunisia 0.309 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.4% rising
81 Albania 0.292 units per square kilometre 2020 down 45.7% volatile
82 Austria 0.2787 units per square kilometre 2020 down 10.7% falling
83 China 0.27 units per square kilometre 2020 down 13.9% falling
84 Afghanistan 0.253 units per square kilometre 2020 down 46.2% volatile
85 Cape Verde 0.2481 units per square kilometre 2020 down 16.7% volatile
86 Nigeria 0.2448 units per square kilometre 2020 up 37.7% rising
87 Uganda 0.2294 units per square kilometre 2020 down 1.7% falling
88 Fiji 0.2189 units per square kilometre 2020 up 14.3% falling
89 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.2148 units per square kilometre 2020 up 4.0% volatile
90 Honduras 0.2056 units per square kilometre 2020 up 15.0% rising
91 Bahamas 0.1998 units per square kilometre 2020 up 132.6% volatile
92 Costa Rica 0.1958 units per square kilometre 2020 up 2.0% falling
93 Togo 0.1839 units per square kilometre 2020 up 7.5% rising
94 Republic of Moldova 0.1825 units per square kilometre 2020 down 22.5% falling
95 Mexico 0.1754 units per square kilometre 2020 up 2.8% rising
96 Eswatini 0.1744 units per square kilometre 1999 down 25.0% falling
97 Ecuador 0.1691 units per square kilometre 2020 down 28.8% falling
98 Estonia 0.1637 units per square kilometre 2020 up 20.7% rising
99 Malawi 0.1591 units per square kilometre 2020 up 183.0% rising
100 Uzbekistan 0.1543 units per square kilometre 2020 down 22.7% rising
101 Chile 0.1535 units per square kilometre 2020 up 10.0% rising
102 United States 0.1525 units per square kilometre 2020 down 11.1% falling
103 Oman 0.1519 units per square kilometre 2020 unchanged rising
104 Bhutan 0.1508 units per square kilometre 2000 up 40.9% rising
105 Latvia 0.1446 units per square kilometre 2020 up 95.6% falling
106 Guinea-Bissau 0.1422 units per square kilometre 2020 down 38.1% falling
107 Algeria 0.1369 units per square kilometre 2020 up 2.8% rising
108 Timor-Leste 0.1345 units per square kilometre 2020 up 50.2% rising
109 Zimbabwe 0.1318 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.4% flat
110 Saudi Arabia 0.1312 units per square kilometre 2020 up 13.3% rising
111 Ireland 0.1306 units per square kilometre 2020 down 14.0% falling
112 Uruguay 0.1257 units per square kilometre 2020 down 13.5% falling
113 Sierra Leone 0.1247 units per square kilometre 2020 down 14.3% rising
114 Peru 0.1234 units per square kilometre 2020 down 17.7% rising
115 Tajikistan 0.1225 units per square kilometre 2020 up 5.2% rising
116 Ethiopia 0.1223 units per square kilometre 2020 unchanged falling
117 Turkmenistan 0.1213 units per square kilometre 2020 up 159.1% rising
118 Kyrgyzstan 0.1095 units per square kilometre 2020 up 2.9% rising
119 Benin 0.1064 units per square kilometre 2020 up 65.5% rising
120 Nicaragua 0.0997 units per square kilometre 2020 unchanged volatile
121 Senegal 0.0987 units per square kilometre 2020 up 2.0% rising
122 Angola 0.0938 units per square kilometre 2020 unchanged flat
123 Brazil 0.0912 units per square kilometre 2020 up 6.8% rising
124 Russian Federation 0.0888 units per square kilometre 2020 up 1.7% falling
125 Belize 0.0877 units per square kilometre 2020 up 90.5% rising
126 Côte d'Ivoire 0.0849 units per square kilometre 2020 up 45.6% volatile
127 South Sudan 0.0839 units per square kilometre 2020 down 74.8% falling
128 Sudan 0.0771 units per square kilometre 2020 down 45.5% falling
129 Yemen 0.0758 units per square kilometre 2020 down 71.0% falling
130 South Africa 0.0734 units per square kilometre 2020 up 15.4% volatile
131 Paraguay 0.073 units per square kilometre 2020 up 13.9% rising
132 Finland 0.0724 units per square kilometre 2020 down 11.9% falling
133 Cameroon 0.0719 units per square kilometre 2020 up 46.6% rising
134 Ghana 0.0703 units per square kilometre 2020 up 3.2% rising
135 Norway 0.0686 units per square kilometre 2020 up 2.5% falling
136 Lesotho 0.0659 units per square kilometre 2020 unchanged flat
137 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.0655 units per square kilometre 2020 down 14.7% rising
138 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 0.0591 units per square kilometre 2020 down 15.7% rising
139 Guinea 0.0529 units per square kilometre 2020 down 32.6% falling
140 Kenya 0.0413 units per square kilometre 2020 down 19.2% rising
141 Burkina Faso 0.0402 units per square kilometre 2020 down 3.9% rising
142 New Zealand 0.038 units per square kilometre 2020 up 3.4% falling
143 Madagascar 0.0378 units per square kilometre 2020 up 1.8% falling
144 Argentina 0.0376 units per square kilometre 2020 down 1.3% rising
145 Sweden 0.0368 units per square kilometre 2020 down 29.1% volatile
146 Haiti 0.0363 units per square kilometre 2020 — volatile
147 Chad 0.0357 units per square kilometre 2020 up 29.1% rising
148 Equatorial Guinea 0.0357 units per square kilometre 2020 down 24.2% falling
149 Congo 0.0351 units per square kilometre 2020 unchanged falling
150 Mali 0.0336 units per square kilometre 2020 up 237.4% rising
151 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.0316 units per square kilometre 2020 down 1.4% falling
152 Gabon 0.0272 units per square kilometre 2020 up 4.5% falling
153 Kazakhstan 0.0263 units per square kilometre 2020 down 11.8% rising
154 Somalia 0.0223 units per square kilometre 2020 up 600.0% volatile
155 Zambia 0.0215 units per square kilometre 2020 down 3.0% falling
156 Liberia 0.0208 units per square kilometre 2020 down 2.0% volatile
157 Mauritania 0.0204 units per square kilometre 2020 up 0.6% rising
158 Namibia 0.0194 units per square kilometre 2020 up 5.3% rising
159 Central African Republic 0.0161 units per square kilometre 2020 up 217.5% rising
160 Botswana 0.0159 units per square kilometre 2020 down 14.3% rising
161 Guyana 0.0142 units per square kilometre 2020 up 7.6% falling
162 Mozambique 0.014 units per square kilometre 2020 down 1.8% volatile
163 Suriname 0.0125 units per square kilometre 2020 up 8.7% falling
164 Mongolia 0.0116 units per square kilometre 2020 up 4.6% falling
165 Papua New Guinea 0.0088 units per square kilometre 2020 up 29.0% falling
166 Canada 0.008 units per square kilometre 2020 up 9.6% falling
167 Niger 0.0079 units per square kilometre 2020 down 6.5% rising
168 Australia 0.0078 units per square kilometre 2020 up 6.0% falling
169 Antigua and Barbuda 0 units per square kilometre 2020 down 100.0% falling
169 Iceland 0 units per square kilometre 2020 down 100.0% volatile
169 Libya 0 units per square kilometre 2020 down 100.0% falling
169 Palestine, State of 0 units per square kilometre 2020 down 100.0% falling
169 Seychelles 0 units per square kilometre 2020 down 100.0% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Armed forces personnel, total divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Armed forces personnel, total ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Armed forces personnel, total, per square kilometre
Unit
units per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
219 places, 6,752 data points, 1985–2020
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Armed forces personnel, total divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.