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Visualizing Europe's Biggest Armies
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenThis visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, breaks down the estimated size of military forces across Europe in 2025. It covers both active personnel and total military strength, which includes reserves and paramilitary units. The data for this visualization comes from GlobalFirepower. Countries are also categorized by NATO membership.
Russia and Ukraine Tower Over the Rest
Russia leads with 1.3 million active personnel and over 3.5 million total military personnel, the largest force in Europe. Ukraine, bolstered by wartime mobilization, has about 900,000 active troops and 2.2 million total personnel.
Combined, these two non-NATO countries account for more military manpower than all of Western Europe combined.
| ???????? UK | 1,108,860 | 184,860 | NATO |
| ???????? Finland | 947,800 | 24,000 | NATO |
| ???????? Turkiye | 883,900 | 355,200 | NATO |
| ???????? Poland | 602,100 | 202,100 | NATO |
| ???????? Greece | 419,050 | 142,700 | NATO |
| ???????? France | 376,000 | 200,000 | NATO |
| ???????? Italy | 289,000 | 165,500 | NATO |
| ???????? Portugal | 260,400 | 24,000 | NATO |
| ???????? Spain | 226,902 | 133,282 | NATO |
| ???????? Germany | 215,600 | 181,600 | NATO |
| ???????? Romania | 151,300 | 81,300 | NATO |
| ???????? Lithuania | 141,150 | 23,000 | NATO |
| ???????? Estonia | 96,500 | 7,700 | NATO |
| ???????? Denmark | 83,000 | 20,000 | NATO |
| ???????? Sweden | 82,300 | 24,400 | NATO |
| ???????? Hungary | 76,600 | 41,600 | NATO |
| ???????? Norway | 63,250 | 23,250 | NATO |
| ???????? Netherlands | 53,145 | 41,380 | NATO |
| ???????? Czechia | 32,200 | 28,000 | NATO |
| ???????? Russia | 3,570,000 | 1,320,000 | Non-NATO |
| ???????? Ukraine | 2,200,000 | 900,000 | Non-NATO |
| ???????? Serbia | 627,000 | 25,000 | Non-NATO |
| ???????? Switzerland | 156,299 | 101,584 | Non-NATO |
| ???????? Austria | 141,600 | 16,000 | Non-NATO |
NATO's Largest Armies: Turkey, Poland, and the UK
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