Dataset
Armed forces personnel as a share of total population
owid.armed-forces-personnel-percent
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About
Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: The Military Balance - International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank (2026); Population based on various sources (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Armed forces personnel (% of total population)” [dataset]. The Military Balance - International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank, “World Development Indicators 129”; Various sources, “Population” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1985–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-07-27
- Units
- %
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/armed-forces-personnel-percent
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| armed_forces_share_population | number | Armed forces personnel (% of total population) (%) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |