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personnel personnel per thousand people

Select year 1941 1968 1973 2006 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014

• Totals
• Per Capita

#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE	GRAPH
1	China	2.29 million	2006
2	United States	1.43 million	2012
3	India	1.32 million	2014
4	Ukraine	1.16 million	2014
5	North Korea	1.11 million	2014
6	Russia	766,000	2013
7	South Korea	687,000	2014
8	Turkey	664,049	2014
9	Pakistan	617,000	1973
10	Iran	523,000	2013
11	Egypt	468,500	2014
12	Vietnam	455,000	2014
13	Colombia	444,518	2014
14	Indonesia	438,410	2014
15	Burma	406,000	2014
16	Syria	325,000	2014
17	Thailand	305,860	2013
18	Bangladesh	280,000	2014
19	Iraq	271,400	2013
20	Mexico	267,506	2014
21	Saudi Arabia	233,500	2014
22	Japan	230,300	2014
23	Sri Lanka	223,100	2014
24	France	222,215	2013
25	Philippines	220,000	2014
26	United Kingdom	205,850	2014
27	Eritrea	201,750	2014
28	Afghanistan	200,000	2012
29	Morocco	195,800	2014
30	Germany	182,927	2012
31	Italy	180,270	2013
32	Greece	177,600	2012
33	Israel	176,500	2012
34	Democratic Republic of the Congo	151,251	2014
35	Algeria	147,000	2014
36	Ethiopia	138,000	2014
37	Cambodia	124,300	2014
38	Spain	123,300	2014
39	Poland	120,000	2011
40	Venezuela	115,000	2014
41	Peru	114,000	2014
42	Sudan	109,300	2014
43	Malaysia	109,000	2014
44	Angola	107,000	2014
45	Jordan	100,500	2014
46	Nepal	95,753	2014
47	Nigeria	80,000	2014
48	Libya	76,000	2014
49	Romania	73,350	2014
50	Argentina	73,100	2014
51	Belarus	72,940	2014
52	Singapore	72,500	2014
53	Canada	68,250	2014
54	Uzbekistan	67,000	2014
55	Azerbaijan	66,940	2014
56	Yemen	66,700	2014
57	South Africa	62,082	2014
58	Somalia	62,000	2012
59	Netherlands	61,302	2011
60	Chile	60,560	2014
61	Lebanon	59,100	2014
62	Ecuador	57,983	2014
63	United Arab Emirates	51,000	2014
64	Dominican Republic	49,910	2014
=65	Cuba	49,000	2014
=65	Kazakhstan	49,000	2014
67	Armenia	46,684	2014
68	Bolivia	46,100	2014
69	Uganda	45,000	2014
70	Portugal	43,330	2014
71	Oman	42,600	2014
72	Belgium	38,452	2014
73	Georgia	37,461	2013
74	Serbia	36,000	2011
75	Tunisia	35,800	2014
76	Bulgaria	35,000	2014
77	Rwanda	33,000	2014
78	Hungary	29,450	2014
79	Austria	29,300	2014
80	Laos	29,100	2014
81	Zimbabwe	29,000	2014
82	Tanzania	27,000	2014
83	Denmark	26,585	2014
84	Chad	25,350	2014
85	Uruguay	24,621	2014
86	Kenya	24,120	2014
87	Norway	24,025	2014
88	Finland	22,600	2014
89	Switzerland	22,059	2014
90	Turkmenistan	22,000	2014
91	Burundi	20,000	2014
92	Croatia	18,600	2014
93	Czech Republic	17,932	2014
94	Slovakia	16,531	2014
95	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16,000	2014
96	Mauritania	15,870	2014
=97	El Salvador	15,500	2014
=97	Ghana	15,500	2014
=97	Kuwait	15,500	2014
100	Sweden	15,400	2014
101	Guatemala	15,212	2014
102	Zambia	15,100	2014
103	Albania	14,295	2014
104	Cameroon	14,100	2014
105	Senegal	13,620	2014
106	Madagascar	13,500	2014
107	Guinea	12,300	2014
=108	Djibouti	12,000	2014
=108	Nicaragua	12,000	2014
=108	Honduras	12,000	2014
111	Qatar	11,800	2014
=112	Burkina Faso	11,200	2014
=112	Mozambique	11,200	2014
114	Kyrgyzstan	10,900	2014
115	Paraguay	10,650	2014
116	Sierra Leone	10,500	2014
117	Ireland	10,460	2014
118	Cyprus	10,050	2014
=119	Republic of the Congo	10,000	2014
=119	Mongolia	10,000	2014
121	New Zealand	9,702	2014
122	Namibia	9,200	2014
123	Botswana	9,000	2014
124	Lithuania	8,850	2014
125	Tajikistan	8,800	2014
126	Togo	8,550	2014
127	Bahrain	8,200	2014
=128	Republic of Macedonia	8,000	2014
=128	Bhutan	8,000	2014
130	Mali	7,350	2014
131	Slovenia	7,200	2014
132	Brunei	7,000	2014
133	Moldova	5,998	2014
134	Latvia	5,745	2014
=135	Malawi	5,300	2014
=135	Niger	5,300	2014
=137	Estonia	4,750	2014
=137	Benin	4,750	2014
139	Gabon	4,700	2014
140	Guinea-Bissau	4,450	2014
141	Trinidad and Tobago	4,063	2014
142	Fiji	3,500	2014
143	Montenegro	3,127	2014
144	Papua New Guinea	3,100	2014
145	Swaziland	3,000	1968
146	Jamaica	2,830	2014
=147	Kosovo	2,500	2009
=147	South Ossetia	2,500	1941
149	Liberia	2,400	2014
150	Central African Republic	2,150	2014
151	Lesotho	2,000	2014
152	Malta	1,954	2014
153	Suriname	1,840	2014
154	East Timor	1,332	2014
155	Equatorial Guinea	1,320	2014
156	Cape Verde	1,200	2014
157	Guyana	1,100	2014
158	Belize	1,050	2014
159	Luxembourg	900	2014
160	The Bahamas	860	2014
161	Gambia	800	2014
162	Barbados	610	2014
163	Tonga	220	2013
164	Seychelles	200	2014
165	Antigua and Barbuda	170	2014
166	Saint Kitts and Nevis	70	2012
=167	Palestine	0.0	2014
=167	Mauritius	0.0	2014
=167	Panama	0.0	2014
=167	Costa Rica	0.0	2014
=167	Haiti	0.0	2014
=167	Iceland	0.0	2014
=167	Monaco	0.0	2013
=167	Vanuatu	0.0	2012

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