2020 Military Strength Ranking

Global powers ranked by potential military strength.

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 (Rise, Neutral, Fall).

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: 0.0606

 

2

Russia

 

PwrIndx: 0.0681

 

3

China

 

PwrIndx: 0.0691

 

4

India

 

PwrIndx: 0.0953

 

5

Japan

 

PwrIndx: 0.1501

 

6

South Korea

 

PwrIndx: 0.1509

 

7

France

 

PwrIndx: 0.1702

 

8

United Kingdom

 

PwrIndx: 0.1717

 

9

Egypt

 

PwrIndx: 0.1872

 

10

Brazil

 

PwrIndx: 0.1988

 

11

Turkey

 

PwrIndx: 0.2098

 

12

Italy

 

PwrIndx: 0.2111

 

13

Germany

 

PwrIndx: 0.2186

 

14

Iran

 

PwrIndx: 0.2191

 

15

Pakistan

 

PwrIndx: 0.2364

 

16

Indonesia

 

PwrIndx: 0.2544

 

17

Saudi Arabia

 

PwrIndx: 0.3034

 

18

Israel

 

PwrIndx: 0.3111

 

19

Australia

 

PwrIndx: 0.3225

 

20

Spain

 

PwrIndx: 0.3388

 

21

Poland

 

PwrIndx: 0.3397

 

22

Vietnam

 

PwrIndx: 0.3559

 

23

Thailand

 

PwrIndx: 0.3571

 

24

Canada

 

PwrIndx: 0.3712

 

25

North Korea

 

PwrIndx: 0.3718

 

26

Taiwan

 

PwrIndx: 0.4008

 

27

Ukraine

 

PwrIndx: 0.4457

 

28

Algeria

 

PwrIndx: 0.4659

 

29

South Africa

 

PwrIndx: 0.4985

 

30

Switzerland

 

PwrIndx: 0.5259

 

31

Norway

 

PwrIndx: 0.5277

 

32

Sweden

 

PwrIndx: 0.5304

 

33

Greece

 

PwrIndx: 0.5311

 

34

Czechia

 

PwrIndx: 0.5531

 

35

Myanmar

 

PwrIndx: 0.5691

 

36

Netherlands

 

PwrIndx: 0.5919

 

37

Colombia

 

PwrIndx: 0.6045

 

38

Mexico

 

PwrIndx: 0.6065

 

39

Romania

 

PwrIndx: 0.6177

 

40

Peru

 

PwrIndx: 0.6219

 

41

Venezuela

 

PwrIndx: 0.6449

 

42

Nigeria

 

PwrIndx: 0.6485

 

43

Argentina

 

PwrIndx: 0.6521

 

44

Malaysia

 

PwrIndx: 0.6546

 

45

United Arab Emirates

 

PwrIndx: 0.7034

 

46

Bangladesh

 

PwrIndx: 0.7066

 

47

Chile

 

PwrIndx: 0.7668

 

48

Philippines

 

PwrIndx: 0.7852

 

49

Denmark

 

PwrIndx: 0.7878

 

50

Iraq

 

PwrIndx: 0.7911

 

51

Singapore

 

PwrIndx: 0.7966

 

52

Uzbekistan

 

PwrIndx: 0.8086

 

53

Belarus

 

PwrIndx: 0.8179

 

54

Hungary

 

PwrIndx: 0.8215

 

55

Syria

 

PwrIndx: 0.8241

 

56

Angola

 

PwrIndx: 0.8379

 

57

Morocco

 

PwrIndx: 0.8408

 

58

Slovakia

 

PwrIndx: 0.8466

 

59

Finland

 

PwrIndx: 0.8498

 

60

Ethiopia

 

PwrIndx: 0.8581

 

61

Portugal

 

PwrIndx: 0.8612

 

62

Bulgaria

 

PwrIndx: 0.8916

 

63

Kazakhstan

 

PwrIndx: 0.9098

 

64

Azerbaijan

 

PwrIndx: 0.9463

 

65

Serbia

 

PwrIndx: 0.9479

 

66

Austria

 

PwrIndx: 0.9568

 

67

Bolivia

 

PwrIndx: 0.9942

 

68

Ecuador

 

PwrIndx: 1.0062

 

69

Croatia

 

PwrIndx: 1.0183

 

70

Belgium

 

PwrIndx: 1.0499

 

71

Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

PwrIndx: 1.1389

 

72

Jordan

 

PwrIndx: 1.1441

 

73

Cuba

 

PwrIndx: 1.2208

 

74

Yemen

 

PwrIndx: 1.2412

 

75

Oman

 

PwrIndx: 1.2514

 

76

Sudan

 

PwrIndx: 1.3017

 

77

Turkmenistan

 

PwrIndx: 1.3292

 

78

Afghanistan

 

PwrIndx: 1.3444

 

79

New Zealand

 

PwrIndx: 1.3684

 

80

Libya

 

PwrIndx: 1.3696

 

81

Tunisia

 

PwrIndx: 1.4619

 

82

Sri Lanka

 

PwrIndx: 1.4661

 

83

Lithuania

 

PwrIndx: 1.4752

 

84

Kenya

 

PwrIndx: 1.5287

 

85

Kuwait

 

PwrIndx: 1.5701

 

86

Uganda

 

PwrIndx: 1.6176

 

87

Chad

 

PwrIndx: 1.6383

 

88

Zambia

 

PwrIndx: 1.6464

 

89

Georgia

 

PwrIndx: 1.6679

 

90

Qatar

 

PwrIndx: 1.6703

 

91

Zimbabwe

 

PwrIndx: 1.7577

 

92

Guatemala

 

PwrIndx: 1.8302

 

93

Bahrain

 

PwrIndx: 1.8547

 

94

Tajikistan

 

PwrIndx: 1.8661

 

95

Uruguay

 

PwrIndx: 1.8909

 

96

Mali

 

PwrIndx: 1.8941

 

97

Burkina Faso

 

PwrIndx: 1.9009

 

98

Kyrgyzstan

 

PwrIndx: 1.9244

 

99

Ireland

 

PwrIndx: 1.9481

 

100

Slovenia

 

PwrIndx: 1.9496

 

101

Cameroon

 

PwrIndx: 1.9902

 

102

Latvia

 

PwrIndx: 2.0145

 

103

Niger

 

PwrIndx: 2.0153

 

104

Ivory Coast

 

PwrIndx: 2.0236

 

105

Mongolia

 

PwrIndx: 2.0299

 

106

Ghana

 

PwrIndx: 2.0554

 

107

Cambodia

 

PwrIndx: 2.0557

 

108

Botswana

 

PwrIndx: 2.0582

 

109

Tanzania

 

PwrIndx: 2.0651

 

110

Honduras

 

PwrIndx: 2.0943

 

111

Armenia

 

PwrIndx: 2.1251

 

112

Moldova

 

PwrIndx: 2.1291

 

113

Paraguay

 

PwrIndx: 2.1898

 

114

Nicaragua

 

PwrIndx: 2.2747

 

115

Albania

 

PwrIndx: 2.3137

 

116

Mozambique

 

PwrIndx: 2.3364

 

117

South Sudan

 

PwrIndx: 2.3501

 

118

Lebanon

 

PwrIndx: 2.5193

 

119

Estonia

 

PwrIndx: 2.5893

 

120

Dominican Republic

 

PwrIndx: 2.7504

 

121

Republic of the Congo

 

PwrIndx: 2.9509

 

122

Nepal

 

PwrIndx: 2.9891

 

123

Montenegro

 

PwrIndx: 2.9941

 

124

Mauritania

 

PwrIndx: 3.0477

 

125

Madagascar

 

PwrIndx: 3.0869

 

126

El Salvador

 

PwrIndx: 3.1291

 

127

North Macedonia

 

PwrIndx: 3.1808

 

128

Namibia

 

PwrIndx: 3.2817

 

129

Central African Republic

 

PwrIndx: 3.2889

 

130

Gabon

 

PwrIndx: 3.3736

 

131

Laos

 

PwrIndx: 3.4433

 

132

Panama

 

PwrIndx: 3.6537

 

133

Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

PwrIndx: 3.8586

 

134

Sierra Leone

 

PwrIndx: 4.2063

 

135

Suriname

 

PwrIndx: 4.6042

 

136

Somalia

 

PwrIndx: 4.6404

 

137

Liberia

 

PwrIndx: 5.5737

 

138

Bhutan

 

PwrIndx: 10.1681