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{"chart":{"title":"Armed forces personnel as a share of total population","subtitle":"Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if their training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces.","citation":"International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank (2025); Population based on various sources (2024)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/armed-forces-personnel-percent","selection":["World","North Korea","Israel","Russia","United States","India","China"]},"columns":{"Armed forces personnel (% of total population)":{"titleShort":"Armed forces personnel (% of total population)","titleLong":"Armed forces personnel (% of total population)","descriptionProcessing":"We estimated this indicator by dividing the total number of armed forces personnel by the total population. The population estimates come from a long-run dataset [mantained by Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources).","shortUnit":"%","unit":"%","timespan":"1985-2020","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":1009156,"shortName":"armed_forces_share_population","lastUpdated":"2025-01-24","nextUpdate":"2026-01-24","citationShort":"International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data","citationLong":"International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Armed forces personnel (% of total population)” [dataset]. International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank, “World Development Indicators”; Various sources, “Population” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1009156.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2025-07-09"} |
