Military profile
Albania Military Strength
Albania ranks #91 of 145 in the Global Firepower military strength ranking, with 8,000 active personnel. It spent $624 million on its military in 2025 (2.0% of GDP).
Albania armed forces in numbers
Personnel
- Active military personnel
- 8,000#129 of 145
- Reserve military personnel
- 0#84 of 145
- Paramilitary forces
- 500#110 of 145
- Army personnel
- 8,500#117 of 145
- Air force personnel
- 500#120 of 145
- Navy personnel
- 1,000#87 of 145
Air power
- Total military aircraft
- 19#118 of 145
- Fighter aircraft
- 0#95 of 145
- Attack aircraft
- 0#65 of 145
- Military helicopters
- 19#98 of 145
- Attack helicopters
- 0#79 of 145
Land forces
- Tanks
- 40#98 of 145
- Self-propelled artillery
- 0#96 of 145
- Towed artillery
- 0#107 of 145
- Rocket artillery
- 0#98 of 145
Naval power
- Aircraft carriers
- 0#8 of 113
- Destroyers
- 0#15 of 113
- Frigates
- 0#56 of 113
- Corvettes
- 0#47 of 113
- Submarines
- 0#44 of 113
- Patrol vessels
- 19#53 of 113
- Mine warfare vessels
- 0#53 of 113
Finance
- Military spending
- $624 million#96 of 156
- Military spending as % of GDP
- 2.0%#59 of 156
- Purchasing power parity (GDP, PPP)
- $38.0 billion#119 of 145
Equipment and personnel: Global Firepower 2023 military strength ranking (2023). Spending: World Bank / SIPRI military expenditure data (CC BY 4.0).
Albania military spending 2010–2025
Military spending of Albania grew by 235% between 2010 and 2025, from $186 million to $624 million (current US dollars), and stood at 2.0% of GDP in 2025.
Armed forces of Albania
Branches and forces
Republic of Albania Armed Forces (Forcat e Armatosura të Republikës së Shqipërisë (FARSH); aka Albanian Armed Forces (AAF)): Land Forces, Naval Force (includes Coast Guard), Air Forces Ministry of Interior: Guard of the Republic, State Police (includes the Border and Migration Police) (2025)
Personnel
approximately 7,500 active-duty military personnel (2025)
Service age and conscription
18-30 for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription abolished 2010 (2025)
Equipment and suppliers
the military is in the process of modernizing by replacing its inventory of Soviet-era weapons with NATO standard armaments; in recent years, acquisitions have included equipment from France, Israel, Italy, Turkey and the US (2025)
Deployments abroad
250 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR) (2025)
Good to know
the Albanian Armed Forces (AAF) are responsible for defending the country's independence, sovereignty, and territory, assisting with internal security, providing disaster and humanitarian relief, and participating in international peacekeeping missions; the AAF is a small, lightly armed force that has been undergoing a modernization effort to improve its ability to fulfill NATO missions; the AAF has contributed small numbers of forces to several NATO missions since Albania joined NATO in 2009, including peacekeeping/stability missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Iraq, and multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria and Latvia; it has also contributed to EU and UN missions (2025)
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2025: 2% · 2024: 1.7% · 2023: 1.7% · 2022: 1.2% · 2021: 1.2%
Forces and service: CIA World Factbook (public domain).
Albania compared with its neighbours
| Country | Strength rank | Military spending |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | #91 | $624 million |
 Greece | #30 | $8.4 billion |
 Montenegro | #128 | $177 million |
 North Macedonia | #108 | $375 million |
 Kosovo | #134 | $235 million |