2026 Military Strength Ranking
The finalized Global Firepower ranking below utilizes over 60 individual factors to determine a given nation's PowerIndex ('PwrIndx') score with categories ranging from quantity of military units and financial standing to logistical capabilities and geography.
Our unique, in-house formula allows for smaller, more technologically-advanced, nations to compete with larger, lesser-developed powers and special modifiers, in the form of bonuses and penalties, are applied to further refine the list which is compiled annually. Color arrows (Green, Gray, and Red) indicate the year-over-year trend comparison ( Up , Stable , Down ). Trends do not necessarily indicate a declining power as changes to the GFP formula can also account for this.
For the 2026 GFP review, a total of 145 world powers are considered.
Note: A perfect PwrIndx score is 0.0000 which is realistically unattainable in the scope of the current GFP formula; as such, the smaller the PwrIndx value, the more 'powerful' a nation's conventional fighting capability is.
United States PwrIndx: 0.0741 PwrIndx: 0.0791 PwrIndx: 0.0919 PwrIndx: 0.1346 South Korea PwrIndx: 0.1642 PwrIndx: 0.1798 PwrIndx: 0.1876 United Kingdom PwrIndx: 0.1881 PwrIndx: 0.1975 PwrIndx: 0.2211 PwrIndx: 0.2374 PwrIndx: 0.2463 PwrIndx: 0.2582 PwrIndx: 0.2626 PwrIndx: 0.2707 PwrIndx: 0.3199 PwrIndx: 0.3208 PwrIndx: 0.3247 PwrIndx: 0.3651 PwrIndx: 0.3691 PwrIndx: 0.3891 PwrIndx: 0.3927 PwrIndx: 0.4066 PwrIndx: 0.4458 Saudi Arabia PwrIndx: 0.4473 PwrIndx: 0.4834 PwrIndx: 0.4849 PwrIndx: 0.5269 PwrIndx: 0.5272 PwrIndx: 0.5484 North Korea PwrIndx: 0.5933 PwrIndx: 0.5983 PwrIndx: 0.6097 Netherlands PwrIndx: 0.6142 PwrIndx: 0.6265 PwrIndx: 0.6401 Bangladesh PwrIndx: 0.6517 PwrIndx: 0.6659 PwrIndx: 0.6679 South Africa PwrIndx: 0.6843 Philippines PwrIndx: 0.6993 PwrIndx: 0.7379 PwrIndx: 0.7551 PwrIndx: 0.8115 PwrIndx: 0.8198 Switzerland PwrIndx: 0.8396 PwrIndx: 0.8525 PwrIndx: 0.8673 PwrIndx: 0.8704 PwrIndx: 0.8827 PwrIndx: 0.9106 PwrIndx: 0.9558 Uzbekistan PwrIndx: 0.9908 United Arab Emirates PwrIndx: 1.0188 PwrIndx: 1.0313 PwrIndx: 1.0368 PwrIndx: 1.0429 Kazakhstan PwrIndx: 1.0433 PwrIndx: 1.1045 Azerbaijan PwrIndx: 1.1991 PwrIndx: 1.2201 PwrIndx: 1.2522 PwrIndx: 1.2938 Democratic Republic of the Congo PwrIndx: 1.3051 PwrIndx: 1.3345 PwrIndx: 1.3563 PwrIndx: 1.3759 PwrIndx: 1.3822 PwrIndx: 1.3911 PwrIndx: 1.4072 PwrIndx: 1.4096 PwrIndx: 1.4479 PwrIndx: 1.5432 PwrIndx: 1.5581 PwrIndx: 1.6731 PwrIndx: 1.7161 PwrIndx: 1.7258 Turkmenistan PwrIndx: 1.7459 PwrIndx: 1.7823 PwrIndx: 1.7872 PwrIndx: 1.7974 PwrIndx: 1.8301 PwrIndx: 1.8434 PwrIndx: 1.8588 PwrIndx: 1.8594 PwrIndx: 1.8823 PwrIndx: 1.8861 PwrIndx: 1.8949 PwrIndx: 1.9111 New Zealand PwrIndx: 1.9258 PwrIndx: 1.9404 Mozambique PwrIndx: 1.9769 PwrIndx: 1.9987 PwrIndx: 2.0661 PwrIndx: 2.0779 PwrIndx: 2.1277 PwrIndx: 2.1537 PwrIndx: 2.1617 PwrIndx: 2.1689 Tajikistan PwrIndx: 2.1749 PwrIndx: 2.2016 PwrIndx: 2.2316 PwrIndx: 2.2575 PwrIndx: 2.2598 PwrIndx: 2.2801 PwrIndx: 2.3201 PwrIndx: 2.3252 Ivory Coast PwrIndx: 2.3884 Kyrgyzstan PwrIndx: 2.3969 Luxembourg PwrIndx: 2.4429 PwrIndx: 2.4461 PwrIndx: 2.4566 South Sudan PwrIndx: 2.4645 North Macedonia PwrIndx: 2.4956 Dominican Republic PwrIndx: 2.5853 PwrIndx: 2.5894 Republic of the Congo PwrIndx: 2.6259 PwrIndx: 2.6521 PwrIndx: 2.6841 PwrIndx: 2.6867 Afghanistan PwrIndx: 2.7342 PwrIndx: 2.7414 Mauritania PwrIndx: 2.7919 PwrIndx: 2.8037 PwrIndx: 2.8672 PwrIndx: 2.8925 Burkina Faso PwrIndx: 2.9213 Montenegro PwrIndx: 2.9782 El Salvador PwrIndx: 2.9973 PwrIndx: 2.9993 Madagascar PwrIndx: 3.0381 PwrIndx: 3.0432 Bosnia and Herzegovina PwrIndx: 3.1291 PwrIndx: 3.4013 PwrIndx: 3.5011 PwrIndx: 3.6225 PwrIndx: 3.7393 PwrIndx: 3.8963 PwrIndx: 3.8041 Sierra Leone PwrIndx: 3.9201 PwrIndx: 3.9275 PwrIndx: 4.0538 Central African Republic PwrIndx: 4.2381 PwrIndx: 4.3602 PwrIndx: 5.7991The GlobalFirepower.com logo is a trademark of this website and is protected by all applicable domestic and international intellectual property laws. The published content of the pages contained herein is unique to this website (unless where indicated) and not for reuse in any form. About: GlobalFirepower.com is an annually-updated, statistics-based website tracking defense-related information of 145 nations and exists as a wholly-independent resource. Part of the Military Factory network of sites that includes MilitaryFactory.com, WDMMA.org, and WDMMW.org. No A.I. was used in the generation of this content.