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
2
Russia
3
China
4
India
5
Japan
6
South Korea
7
France
8
United Kingdom
9
Egypt
10
Brazil
11
Turkey
12
Italy
13
Germany
14
Iran
15
Pakistan
16
Indonesia
17
Saudi Arabia
18
Israel
19
Australia
20
Spain
21
Poland
22
Vietnam
23
Thailand
24
Canada
25
North Korea
26
Taiwan
27
Ukraine
28
Algeria
29
South Africa
30
Switzerland
31
Norway
32
Sweden
33
Greece
34
Czechia
35
Myanmar
36
Netherlands
37
Colombia
38
Mexico
39
Romania
40
Peru
41
Venezuela
42
Nigeria
43
Argentina
44
Malaysia
45
United Arab Emirates
46
Bangladesh
47
Chile
48
Philippines
49
Denmark
50
Iraq
51
Singapore
52
Uzbekistan
53
Belarus
54
Hungary
55
Syria
56
Angola
57
Morocco
58
Slovakia
59
Finland
60
Ethiopia
61
Portugal
62
Bulgaria
63
Kazakhstan
64
Azerbaijan
65
Serbia
66
Austria
67
Bolivia
68
Ecuador
69
Croatia
70
Belgium
71
Democratic Republic of the Congo
72
Jordan
73
Cuba
74
Yemen
75
Oman
76
Sudan
77
Turkmenistan
78
Afghanistan
79
New Zealand
80
Libya
81
Tunisia
82
Sri Lanka
83
Lithuania
84
Kenya
85
Kuwait
86
Uganda
87
Chad
88
Zambia
89
Georgia
90
Qatar
91
Zimbabwe
92
Guatemala
93
Bahrain
94
Tajikistan
95
Uruguay
96
Mali
97
Burkina Faso
98
Kyrgyzstan
99
Ireland
100
Slovenia
101
Cameroon
102
Latvia
103
Niger
104
Ivory Coast
105
Mongolia
106
Ghana
107
Cambodia
108
Botswana
109
Tanzania
110
Honduras
111
Armenia
112
Moldova
113
Paraguay
114
Nicaragua
115
Albania
116
Mozambique
117
South Sudan
118
Lebanon
119
Estonia
120
Dominican Republic
121
Republic of the Congo
122
Nepal
123
Montenegro
124
Mauritania
125
Madagascar
126
El Salvador
127
North Macedonia
128
Namibia
129
Central African Republic
130
Gabon
131
Laos
132
Panama
133
Bosnia and Herzegovina
134
Sierra Leone
135
Suriname
136
Somalia
137
Liberia
138
Bhutan