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France Military Stats

Definitions

  • Active military personnel: Active military personnel.
  • Active military personnel per thousand people: Active military personnel. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
  • Air force > Aircraft carriers > Commissioned:

    Amount of aircraft carriers in full service in each country. These numbers can also be interpreted as the amount of each country's commissioned aircraft carriers.   

  • Air force > Aircraft carriers > Total: Total amount of aircraft carriers possessed by each country. 
  • Air force > C-130 transport aircraft: C-130.
  • Air force > Combat aircraft: Number of fighter aircrafts (fixed wing aircrafts with combat capability).
  • Air force > Combat aircraft per million people: Number of fighter aircrafts (fixed wing aircrafts with combat capability). Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Air force > Mirage aircraft: Mirage 2000.
  • Air force > Mirage aircraft per million people: Mirage 2000. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Armed forces growth: Growth in the number of armed forces personnel from 1985 (index = 100) to 2000. 100 means no growth, 50 means it halved and 200 means it doubled.
  • Armed forces personnel: Total armed forces (2000)
  • Armed forces personnel > Total: Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if the training, organisation, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces."
  • Armed forces personnel per 1000: Total armed forces (2000). Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Arms trade > Arms exports, top countries: Compares the world's largest arms exporters, in millions of US Dollars. Data corresponds to the year 2010, and was compiled by SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), a think tank dedicated to the research of conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament in the world, with presence in Stockholm, Beijing and Washington DC.
  • Arms trade > Arms exports, top countries per million people: Compares the world's largest arms exporters, in millions of US Dollars. Data corresponds to the year 2010, and was compiled by SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), a think tank dedicated to the research of conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament in the world, with presence in Stockholm, Beijing and Washington DC. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Army > Attack helicopters: Number of attack helicopter (includes helicopters that have some attacking capabilities).
  • Army > Attack helicopters per million people: Number of attack helicopter (includes helicopters that have some attacking capabilities). Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Army > Main battle tanks: Number of main battle tanks.
  • Army > Main battle tanks per million people: Number of main battle tanks. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Army > Mortars: Mortar.
  • Army > Self-propelled guns: Self-propelled gun.
  • Army > Towed artillery units: Towed artillery.
  • Army > Troops prepared for deployed and sustained operation: Troops prepared for deployed and sustained operation.
  • Army > Troops prepared for deployed operations: Troops prepared for deployed operations.
  • Battle-related deaths > Number of people: Battle-related deaths (number of people). Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths--military as well as civilian--incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths.
  • Battle-related deaths > Number of people per million: Battle-related deaths (number of people). Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths--military as well as civilian--incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
  • Branches: The names of the ground, naval, air, marine, and other defense or security forces
  • Budget: Annual defense budget in billion USD.
  • Budget per million people: Annual defense budget in billion USD. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Conscription: A description of the status of conscription in the nation in 1997.
  • Defence spending > Percent of GDP: Defense expenditure as percentage of GDP. Figures are for the year 2010.
  • Expenditure > Current LCU: Military expenditures data from SIPRI are derived from the NATO definition, which includes all current and capital expenditures on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces; defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects; paramilitary forces, if these are judged to be trained and equipped for military operations; and military space activities. Such expenditures include military and civil personnel, including retirement pensions of military personnel and social services for personnel; operation and maintenance; procurement; military research and development; and military aid (in the military expenditures of the donor country). Excluded are civil defense and current expenditures for previous military activities, such as for veterans' benefits, demobilization, conversion, and destruction of weapons. This definition cannot be applied for all countries, however, since that would require much more detailed information than is available about what is included in military budgets and off-budget military expenditure items. (For example, military budgets might or might not cover civil defense, reserves and auxiliary forces, police and paramilitary forces, dual-purpose forces such as military and civilian police, military grants in kind, pensions for military personnel, and social security contributions paid by one part of government to another.)
  • Expenditures > Dollar figure: Current military expenditures in US dollars; the figure is calculated by multiplying the estimated defense spending in percentage terms by the gross domestic product (GDP) calculated on an exchange rate basis not purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. Dollar figures for military expenditures should be treated with caution because of different price patterns and accounting methods among nations, as well as wide variations in the strength of their currencies
  • Expenditures > Dollar figure per capita: Current military expenditures in US dollars; the figure is calculated by multiplying the estimated defense spending in percentage terms by the gross domestic product (GDP) calculated on an exchange rate basis not purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. Dollar figures for military expenditures should be treated with caution because of different price patterns and accounting methods among nations, as well as wide variations in the strength of their currencies. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
  • Expenditures > Percent of GDP: Current military expenditures as an estimated percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
  • Global Peace Index: The Global Peace Index is comprised of 22 indicators in the three categories ongoing domestic or international conflicts; societal safety; and security and militarization. A low index value indicates a peaceful and safe country.
  • Gulf War Coalition Forces: Number of troops who served on active duty in the Gulf War theater of operations between August 2, 1990, and June 13, 1991.
  • Highest military decorations > Name: Name of each country’s highest military decoration.
  • Imports > USD: Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licenses. Data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships designed for military use. Excluded are transfers of other military equipment such as small arms and light weapons, trucks, small artillery, ammunition, support equipment, technology transfers, and other services."
  • Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males: The number of draft-age males and females entering the military manpower pool in any given year and is a measure of the availability of draft-age young adults.
  • Manpower reaching military age annually > Males: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching military age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults.
  • Military branches: This entry lists the service branches subordinate to defense ministries or the equivalent (typically ground, naval, air, and marine forces).
  • Military expenditure > Current LCU: Military expenditures data from SIPRI are derived from the NATO definition, which includes all current and capital expenditures on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces; defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects; paramilitary forces, if these are judged to be trained and equipped for military operations; and military space activities. Such expenditures include military and civil personnel, including retirement pensions of military personnel and social services for personnel; operation and maintenance; procurement; military research and development; and military aid (in the military expenditures of the donor country). Excluded are civil defense and current expenditures for previous military activities, such as for veterans' benefits, demobilisation, conversion, and destruction of weapons. This definition cannot be applied for all countries, however, since that would require much more detailed information than is available about what is included in military budgets and off-budget military expenditure items. (For example, military budgets might or might not cover civil defense, reserves and auxiliary forces, police and paramilitary forces, dual-purpose forces such as military and civilian police, military grants in kind, pensions for military personnel, and social security contributions paid by one part of government to another.)"
  • Military expenditures: This entry gives spending on defense programs for the most recent year available as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP); the GDP is calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). For countries with no military forces, this figure can include expenditures on public security and police.
  • Military service age and obligation: This entry gives the required ages for voluntary or conscript military service and the length of service obligation.
  • NATO > NATO reserves provided: Reserve personnel.

    No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.

  • Navy > Aircraft carriers: Number of aircraft carriers.
  • Navy > Aircraft carriers per million people: Number of aircraft carriers. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Navy > Amphibious assault ships: Amphibious assault ship.

    No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.

  • Navy > Amphibious warfare ships: Number of amphibious warfare ships.
  • Navy > Attack subs: Attack sub.

    No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.

  • Navy > Corvette warships: Number of corvettes.
  • Navy > Cruisers: Number of cruisers.
  • Navy > Destroyers: Number of destroyers.
  • Navy > Frigates: Number of frigates.
  • Navy > Helicopter carriers: Amount of helicopter carriers currently in service.
  • Navy > Missile submarines: Missile sub.

    No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.

  • Navy > Nuclear submarines: Number of nuclear submarines.
  • Navy > Nuclear submarines per million people: Number of nuclear submarines. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Navy > Patrol boats: Number of patrol boats (Includes minesweepers).
  • Navy > Submarines: Number of patrol boats (includes minesweepers).
  • Navy > Submarines per million people: Number of patrol boats (includes minesweepers). Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Nuclear weapons > Atmospheric tests: Atmospheric tests.
  • Nuclear weapons > Nuclear warheads: Total nuclear warheads.
  • Nuclear weapons > Peaceful use tests: Peaceful tests.
  • Nuclear weapons > Share of all nuclear tests: By test count.
  • Nuclear weapons > Share of all nuclear tests by yield: By yield.
  • Nuclear weapons > Test detonations: Detonations.
  • Nuclear weapons > Total yield of all tests: Total yield, kt.
  • Paramilitary personnel: Paramilitary.

    No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.

  • Paramilitary personnel per million people: Paramilitary.

    No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.

    . Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Personnel: Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if the training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces.
  • Personnel > Per capita: Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if the training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
  • Personnel per 1000: Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if the training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Service age and obligation: This entry gives the required ages for voluntary or conscript military service and the length of sevice obligation.
  • WMD > Missile: A description of the nation's situation with regards to the possession and manufacture of missile weapons of mass destruction
  • WMD > Nuclear: A description of the nation's situation with regards to the possession and manufacture of nuclear weapons
  • War deaths: Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths--military as well as civilian--incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths."
STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Active military personnel 218,200 2012 1st out of 26
Active military personnel per thousand people 3.32 2012 7th out of 26
Air force > Aircraft carriers > Commissioned 4 2014 2nd out of 13
Air force > Aircraft carriers > Total 8 2014 4th out of 16
Air force > C-130 transport aircraft 14 2013 2nd out of 4
Air force > Combat aircraft 306 2009 1st out of 1
Air force > Combat aircraft per million people 4.73 2009 1st out of 1
Air force > Mirage aircraft 144 2000 1st out of 2
Air force > Mirage aircraft per million people 2.36 2000 2nd out of 2
Armed forces growth -37% 2000 108th out of 132
Armed forces personnel 294,000 2000 17th out of 166
Armed forces personnel > Total 353,000 2008 17th out of 160
Armed forces personnel per 1000 4.83 2000 59th out of 166
Arms trade > Arms exports, top countries 1,139 2012 6th out of 14
Arms trade > Arms exports, top countries per million people 17.34 2012 7th out of 14
Army > Attack helicopters 39 2013 3rd out of 11
Army > Attack helicopters per million people 0.556 2009 1st out of 1
Army > Main battle tanks 527 2013 4th out of 21
Army > Main battle tanks per million people 6.27 2009 1st out of 1
Army > Mortars 1,550 2013 7th out of 23
Army > Self-propelled guns 150 2013 6th out of 16
Army > Towed artillery units 93 2013 10th out of 18
Army > Troops prepared for deployed and sustained operation 29,444 2012 1st out of 19
Army > Troops prepared for deployed operations 71,585 2012 1st out of 22
Battle-related deaths > Number of people 0.0 1992 41st out of 41
Battle-related deaths > Number of people per million 0.0 1992 41st out of 41
Branches Army (Armee de Terre; includes Marines, Foreign Legion, Army Light Aviation), Navy (Marine Nationale, includes Naval Air), Air Force (Armee de l'Air, includes Air Defense), National Gendarmerie 2008
Budget 62.5 US$ BN 2009 1st out of 1
Budget per million people 0.966 US$ BN 2009 1st out of 1
Conscription Conscription exists. 1997
Defence spending > Percent of GDP 2.32% 2009 3rd out of 27
Expenditure > Current LCU 42502000000 2005
Expenditures > Dollar figure $45.24 billion 2003 2nd out of 111
Expenditures > Dollar figure per capita $726.80 2003 6th out of 109
Expenditures > Percent of GDP 2.6% 2005 51st out of 153
Global Peace Index 1.86 2013 6th out of 33
Gulf War Coalition Forces 14,600 1991 5th out of 30
Highest military decorations > Name The Legion of Honour 2014
Imports > USD 68 million 2008 44th out of 86
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 401,379 2008 27th out of 224
Manpower available for military service > Males age 16-49 2013 21st out of 161
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 16-49 2013 20th out of 225
Manpower reaching military age annually > Males 396,050 2012 28th out of 224
Military branches Army (Armee de Terre; includes Marines, Foreign Legion, Army Light Aviation), Navy (Marine Nationale), Air Force (Armee de l'Air (AdlA); includes Air Defense) 2011
Military expenditure > Current LCU 45.99 billion 2009 40th out of 116
Military expenditures 2.6% of GDP 2005 8th out of 40
Military service age and obligation 17-40 years of age for male and female voluntary military service (with parental consent); no conscription; 1-year service obligation; women serve in noncombat posts 2013
NATO > NATO reserves provided 419,000 2014 4th out of 26
Navy > Aircraft carriers 1 2014 1st out of 1
Navy > Aircraft carriers per million people 0.0155 2009 1st out of 1
Navy > Amphibious assault ships 3 2014 1st out of 1
Navy > Amphibious warfare ships 5 2009 1st out of 1
Navy > Attack subs 6 2014 1st out of 1
Navy > Corvette warships 15 2009 1st out of 1
Navy > Cruisers 0.0 2009 1st out of 1
Navy > Destroyers 11 2014 1st out of 1
Navy > Frigates 11 2014 1st out of 3
Navy > Helicopter carriers 3 2014 2nd out of 8
Navy > Missile submarines 4 2014 1st out of 1
Navy > Nuclear submarines 10 2009 1st out of 1
Navy > Nuclear submarines per million people 0.155 2009 1st out of 1
Navy > Patrol boats 12 2014 1st out of 4
Navy > Submarines 0.0 2009 1st out of 1
Navy > Submarines per million people 0.0 2009 1st out of 1
Nuclear weapons > Atmospheric tests 57 2000 2nd out of 6
Nuclear weapons > Nuclear warheads 300 2014 3rd out of 9
Nuclear weapons > Peaceful use tests 4 2000 2nd out of 6
Nuclear weapons > Share of all nuclear tests 10.2% 2000 2nd out of 6
Nuclear weapons > Share of all nuclear tests by yield 2.51% 2000 3rd out of 6
Nuclear weapons > Test detonations 217 2000 2nd out of 6
Nuclear weapons > Total yield of all tests 13,567 Kt 2000 3rd out of 6
Paramilitary personnel 98,155 2013 1st out of 1
Paramilitary personnel per million people 1,488.29 2013 1st out of 1
Personnel 359,000 2005 18th out of 160
Personnel > Per capita 5.9 per 1,000 people 2005 62nd out of 160
Personnel per 1000 5.68 2005 64th out of 159
Service age and obligation 17-40 years of age for male or female voluntary military service); no conscription; 12-month service obligation; women serve in noncombat military posts 2005
WMD > Missile France has an estimated 60 operational Air-Sol-Moyenne Porte (ASMP) supersonic missiles with a 300-kilometer range. The ASMP Ameliore (ASMP-A), with a range of 500 kilometers, is expected to enter service in 2007. The ASMPs are carried on 3 squads (60 total) of Mirage 2000N bombers and carrier-based aircraft. France's four operational nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) carry a total of 48 M4 and M45 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) with 288 total warheads. A new SLBM, the M51, will enter service in 2010 and eventually will be carried on all four operating SSBNs. The M51 will have a range of 8,000 to 10,000 kilometers and be capable of carrying up to six warheads. In December 2004. the French Arms Procurement Agency (DGA) placed a 3.0 billion euro order with EADS Aeronautics Company for new M51 ballistic missiles. The French government was also in its final stages of development of the ASMP-A ramjet-powered air-launched cruise missile as of January 2005. France deactivated and dismantled its 18 S3D intermediate-range missiles on the Plateau d'Albion in the 1990s. France is a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime. 2010
WMD > Nuclear France is a nuclear weapon state party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). France maintains approximately 350 nuclear warheads on 60 Mirage 2000N bombers, four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), and on carrier-based aircraft. From the time it detonated its first nuclear bomb in 1960 until its final test on January 26, 1996, France conducted 200 tests at sites on Pacific atolls and in the Sahara. In 1996, President Jacques Chirac introduced reforms for the country's nuclear forces, including scaling down its SSBNs from five to four, withdrawing aging Mirage IVP bombers from service, reducing its number of launchers by 50%, and dismantling its Plateau d'Albion land-based ballistic missile system. It dismantled its nuclear test facilities in the Pacific and ratified the Treaty of Rarotonga and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. France ceased production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium in 1992 and 1996, respectively, and, in 1998, began to dismantle the Marcoule reprocessing plant and the Pierrelatte enrichment facility. The French Navy operates about 80% of the total nuclear arsenal. 2000
War deaths 0.0 2008 179th out of 195
Weapon holdings 6 million 2001 13th out of 137

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  • France ranked first for armed forces personnel amongst European Union in 2000.
  • France ranked first for manpower fit for military service > males age 16-49 amongst Tourist destinations in 2013.

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