Military Strength Ranking 2021

GFP | ANNUAL RANKING

Ranking the total available active military manpower by country, from highest to lowest.

The finalized Global Firepower ranking below utilizes over 50 individual factors to determine a given nation’s PowerIndex (‘PwrIndx’) score with categories ranging from military might and financials to logistical capability and geography.

Our unique, in-house formula allows for smaller, more technologically-advanced, nations to compete with larger, lesser-developed ones and special modifiers, in the form of bonuses and penalties, are applied to further refine the annual list. Color arrows indicate year-over-year trend comparison (IncreaseStableDecline).

Note: A perfect PwrIndx score is 0.0000 which is realistically unattainable in the scope of the current GFP formula; the smaller the PwrIndx value, the more powerful a nation’s theoretical fighting capability is (by conventional means as nuclear capability is not taken into account).

1 United States PwrIndx Score: 0.0718

2 Russia PwrIndx Score: 0.0791

3 China PwrIndx Score: 0.0854

4 India PwrIndx Score: 0.1207

5 Japan PwrIndx Score: 0.1599

6 South Korea PwrIndx Score: 0.1612

7 France PwrIndx Score: 0.1681

8 United Kingdom PwrIndx Score: 0.1997

9 Brazil PwrIndx Score: 0.2026

10 Pakistan PwrIndx Score: 0.2073

11 Turkey PwrIndx Score: 0.2109

12 Italy PwrIndx Score: 0.2127

13 Egypt PwrIndx Score: 0.2216

14 Iran PwrIndx Score: 0.2511

15 Germany PwrIndx Score: 0.2519

16 Indonesia PwrIndx Score: 0.2684

17 Saudi Arabia PwrIndx Score: 0.3231

18 Spain PwrIndx Score: 0.3257

19 Australia PwrIndx Score: 0.3378

20 Israel PwrIndx Score: 0.3464

21 Canada PwrIndx Score: 0.3956

22 Taiwan PwrIndx Score: 0.4154

23 Poland PwrIndx Score: 0.4187

24 Vietnam PwrIndx Score: 0.4189

25 Ukraine PwrIndx Score: 0.4396

26 Thailand PwrIndx Score: 0.4427

27 Algeria PwrIndx Score: 0.4439

28 North Korea PwrIndx Score: 0.4673

29 Greece PwrIndx Score: 0.4954

30 Switzerland PwrIndx Score: 0.5011

31 Sweden PwrIndx Score: 0.5345

32 South Africa PwrIndx Score: 0.5665

33 Norway PwrIndx Score: 0.5717

34 Czechia PwrIndx Score: 0.6204

35 Nigeria PwrIndx Score: 0.6241

36 United Arab Emirates PwrIndx Score: 0.6249

37 Netherlands PwrIndx Score: 0.6391

38 Myanmar PwrIndx Score: 0.6521

39 Colombia PwrIndx Score: 0.6841

40 Singapore PwrIndx Score: 0.6931

41 Romania PwrIndx Score: 0.6953

42 Argentina PwrIndx Score: 0.7026

43 Venezuela PwrIndx Score: 0.7116

44 Malaysia PwrIndx Score: 0.7451

45 Bangladesh PwrIndx Score: 0.7473

46 Mexico PwrIndx Score: 0.7565

47 Peru PwrIndx Score: 0.7931

48 Philippines PwrIndx Score: 0.8219

49 Chile PwrIndx Score: 0.8227

50 Belarus PwrIndx Score: 0.8371

51 Uzbekistan PwrIndx Score: 0.8421

52 Portugal PwrIndx Score: 0.8661

53 Morocco PwrIndx Score: 0.8739

54 Denmark PwrIndx Score: 0.8921

55 Hungary PwrIndx Score: 0.9187

56 Finland PwrIndx Score: 0.9335

57 Iraq PwrIndx Score: 0.9334

58 Slovakia PwrIndx Score: 0.9451

59 Austria PwrIndx Score: 0.9705

60 Serbia PwrIndx Score: 1.0063

61 Kazakhstan PwrIndx Score: 1.0286

62 Croatia PwrIndx Score: 1.0331

63 Azerbaijan PwrIndx Score: 1.0472

64 Syria PwrIndx Score: 1.0506

65 Angola PwrIndx Score: 1.0799

66 Ethiopia PwrIndx Score: 1.0901

67 Bulgaria PwrIndx Score: 1.1438

68 Belgium PwrIndx Score: 1.1809

69 Ecuador PwrIndx Score: 1.2261

70 Libya PwrIndx Score: 1.2736

71 Kuwait PwrIndx Score: 1.3322

72 Oman PwrIndx Score: 1.3911

73 Tunisia PwrIndx Score: 1.4134

74 Jordan PwrIndx Score: 1.4417

75 Afghanistan PwrIndx Score: 1.4887

76 Cuba PwrIndx Score: 1.4937

77 Sudan PwrIndx Score: 1.5159

78 Yemen PwrIndx Score: 1.5172

79 Sri Lanka PwrIndx Score: 1.5426

80 Bolivia PwrIndx Score: 1.5491

81 Democratic Republic of the Congo PwrIndx Score: 1.5507

82 Qatar PwrIndx Score: 1.6175

83 Kenya PwrIndx Score: 1.7241

84 New Zealand PwrIndx Score: 1.7461

85 Lithuania PwrIndx Score: 1.7549

86 Turkmenistan PwrIndx Score: 1.7598

87 Zambia PwrIndx Score: 2.0632

88 Slovenia PwrIndx Score: 2.0782

89 Uganda PwrIndx Score: 2.1208

90 Chad PwrIndx Score: 2.1523

91 Zimbabwe PwrIndx Score: 2.1938

92 Georgia PwrIndx Score: 2.2265

93 Kyrgyzstan PwrIndx Score: 2.2369

94 Cambodia PwrIndx Score: 2.2751

95 Guatemala PwrIndx Score: 2.2918

96 Ghana PwrIndx Score: 2.3606

97 Latvia PwrIndx Score: 2.3756

98 Ireland PwrIndx Score: 2.3861

99 Tajikistan PwrIndx Score: 2.4035

100 Armenia PwrIndx Score: 2.4216

101Mongolia PwrIndx Score: 2.4284

102Uruguay PwrIndx Score: 2.4876

103Bahrain PwrIndx Score: 2.5132

104Niger PwrIndx Score: 2.5493

105Mali PwrIndx Score: 2.5558

106Botswana PwrIndx Score: 2.5679

107Moldova PwrIndx Score: 2.6228

108Cameroon PwrIndx Score: 2.7408

109Estonia PwrIndx Score: 2.8387

110South Sudan PwrIndx Score: 2.8581

111Paraguay PwrIndx Score: 2.8964

112Tanzania PwrIndx Score: 2.9155

113Albania PwrIndx Score: 2.9166

114Honduras PwrIndx Score: 2.9279

115Ivory Coast PwrIndx Score: 2.9808

116Lebanon PwrIndx Score: 3.0014

117Mozambique PwrIndx Score: 3.1763

118Laos PwrIndx Score: 3.3003

119Nepal PwrIndx Score: 3.4701

120Nicaragua PwrIndx Score: 3.4924

121Bosnia and Herzegovina PwrIndx Score: 4.0474

122Dominican Republic PwrIndx Score: 4.2916

123Montenegro PwrIndx Score: 4.3841

124Republic of the Congo PwrIndx Score: 4.3892

125Madagascar PwrIndx Score: 4.4214

126Mauritania PwrIndx Score: 4.4027

127Namibia PwrIndx Score: 4.4392

128El Salvador PwrIndx Score: 4.4774

129Burkina Faso PwrIndx Score: 4.6697

130Panama PwrIndx Score: 4.7889

131Central African Republic PwrIndx Score: 4.9381

132Gabon PwrIndx Score: 4.9661

133North Macedonia PwrIndx Score: 5.0801

134Eritrea PwrIndx Score: 5.6579

135Suriname PwrIndx Score: 8.0693

136Sierra Leone PwrIndx Score: 7.2063

137Somalia PwrIndx Score: 8.0104

138Liberia PwrIndx Score: 9.9159

139Kosovo PwrIndx Score: 19.4791

140Bhutan PwrIndx Score: 23.2577