This map layer compares the five categories of military personnel with the respective population, per 10,000 inhabitants, for all available countries and the year 2017.
Military personnel is made up of the total of all active members of the regular armed forces as well as paramilitaries of a state. The regular armed forces generally consist of the army, the navy and the air force. Paramilitary units are those that are not formally considered part of the armed forces, but whose equipment/weapons and /or tasks are of a military character.