Top 10 Militaries in the World

Today I will be talking about the top 10 militaries in the world. Some of these might surprise you, and with the growing tensions in the world I feel like everyone should know where the threats come from and how protected you may feel because of the might of your own countries militaries. The top ten militaries are:

1. United States
2. Russia
3. China
4. India
5. United Kingdom
6. France
7. Germany
8. Turkey
9. South Korea
10. Japan

I will show some numbers that show why these countries are in the order that they are.

	United States	Russia	China	India	United Kingdom
Population	316,668,567	145,500,482	1,349,585,838	1,220,800,359	63,395,574
Available Manpower	145,212,012	69,117,271	749,610,775	615,201,057	29,164,233
Fit for Service	120,022,084	46,812,553	618,588,627	489,571,520	24,035,131
Tanks	8,325	15,500	9,150	3,569	407
Armored Vehicles	25,782	27,607	4,788	5,085	6,245
Total Aircraft	13,683	3,082	2,788	1,785	908
Fighters	2,271	736	1,170	535	84
Attack Aircraft	2,601	1,289	885	468	78
Transport Aircraft	5,222	730	762	706	338
Helicopters	6,012	973	856	504	362
Naval Strength	473	352	520	184	66
Aircraft Carriers	10	1	1	2	1
Destroyers	62	13	24	11	6
Corvettes	0	74	9	24	0
Submarines	72	63	69	17	11
Oil Production	8,500,000 bbl/day	11,000,000 bbl/day	4,075,000 bbl/day	897,500 bbl/day	1,100,000 bbl/day
Oil Consumption	19,000,000 bbl/day	2,200,000 bb/day	9,500,000 bbl/day	3,200,000 bbl/day	1,700,000 bbl/day
Oil Reserves	20,680,000,000 bbl/day	80,000,000,000 bbl/day	25,580,000,000 bbl/day	5,476, 000,000 bbl/day	3,122,000,000 bbl/day
Labor Force	155,000,000	75,680,000	798,500,000	482,300,000	32,070,000
Defense Budget	$612,500,000,000	$76,600,000,000	$126,000,000,000	$46,000,000,000	$53,600,000,000
External Debt	$15,930,000,000,000	$631,800,000,000	$728,900,000,000	$378,900,000,000	$10,090,000,000,000
Purchasing Power	$15,940,000,000,000	$2,486.000,000,000	$12,260,000,000,000	$4,716,000,000,000	$2,313,000,000,000
Square Land Area	9,826,675 km	17,098,242 km	9,596,961 km	3,287,263 km	243,610 km
Coastline	19,924 km	37,653 km	14,500 km	7,000 km	12,429 km
Shared Border	12,034 km	102,000 km	22,117 km	14,103 km	360 km

	France	Germany	Turkey	South Korea	Japan
Population	65,951,611	81,147,265	80,694,485	48,955,203	127,253,075
Available Manpower	28,802,096	36,417,842	41,637,773	25,609,290	53,608,446
Fit for Service	23,747,168	29,538,413	35,005,326	21,033,275	43,930,753
Tanks	423	408	3,657	2,346	767
Armored Vehicles	7,290	4,279	8,532	2,880	3,057
Total Aircraft	1,203	710	989	1,393	1,595
Fighters	287	190	254	409	292
Attack Aircraft	270	74	254	269	292
Transport Aircraft	531	433	437	322	494
Helicopters	561	401	418	909	671
Naval Strength	120	82	115	166	131
Aircraft Carriers	1	0	0	0	1
Destroyers	0	0	0	12	45
Corvettes	0	5	8	21	0
Submarines	10	4	14	14	16
Oil Production	70,800 bbl/day	157,000 bbl/day	53,000 bbl/day	48,200 bbl/day	133,000 bbl/day
Oil Consumption	1,865,000 bbl/day	2,500,000 bbl/day	650,000 bbl/day	2,200,000 bbl/day	4,455,000 bbl/day
Oil Reserves	85,180,000 bbl/day	254,200,000 bbl/day	270,400,000 bbl/day	6,000,000 bbl/day	44,120, 000 bbl/day
Labor Force	29,780,000	43,920,000	27,340,000	25,500,000	65,550,000
Defense Budget	$43,000,000,000	$45,000,000,000	$18,185,000,000	$33,700,000,000	$49,100,000,000
External Debt	$5,165,000,000,000	$5,719,000,000,000	$336,700,000,000	$0	$3,024,000,000,000
Purchasing Power	$2,238,000,000,000	$3,167,000,000,000	$1,109,000,000,000	$1,598,000,000,000	$4,576,000,000,000
Square Land Area	643,801 km	347,022 km	783,562 km	99,720 km	377,915 km
Coastline	4,853 km	2,389 km	7,200 km	2,413 km	29,751 km
Shared Border	4,072 km	3,790 km	2,648 km	238 km	0 km

I got these numbers from globalfirepower.com

USAF F-22

There are a lot of numbers in these charts, I could have added more but I feel that I got the most important numbers in there. Following these numbers it is pretty clear why the US has the largest and most well equipped military in the world. Since the US is spending more the 100 billion dollars more than the other 9 countries on this list put together. However each of the top 5 have nuclear weapons, and the top 2 have enough to destroy the world hundreds of times over. 

Chinese J-20

If your military is not on here I am sure that you can assume the reasons why. For one I did find some of these surprising, however they do somewhat make sense and the overall top 5 I do believe that they got right. However if you are Russian I am sure that you disagree with this because you guys have more nukes. 

Now that you see the top 10 you will realize that a few of them are allies with your military and others are not. I know for a fact that the US is not allies with Russia, China, and our relation with India is extremely questionable. However, everyone else on that list is someone that we can count on as our allies. The United Kingdom and the US go everywhere together. Whenever the US goes to war with anyone, the UK is right behind them with support. 

Russian T-50 PAK FA

I believe Nukes are a pointless statistic because you can destroy the whole world as we know it with less then 1000 nukes. When both the US and Russia have more then 7,500 and 8,500 respectively, you know that if one country fires its nukes then the other country will fire theres and the world would be over. 

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