Military profile
Georgia Military Strength
Georgia ranks #85 of 145 in the Global Firepower military strength ranking, with 61,200 active personnel. It spent $658 million on its military in 2025 (1.7% of GDP).
Georgia armed forces in numbers
Personnel
- Active military personnel
- 61,200#61 of 145
- Reserve military personnel
- 0#84 of 145
- Paramilitary forces
- 5,400#87 of 145
- Army personnel
- 50,000#62 of 145
- Air force personnel
- 3,000#93 of 145
- Navy personnel
- 0#113 of 145
Air power
- Total military aircraft
- 66#83 of 145
- Fighter aircraft
- 0#95 of 145
- Attack aircraft
- 10#45 of 145
- Military helicopters
- 38#71 of 145
- Attack helicopters
- 9#49 of 145
Land forces
- Tanks
- 243#54 of 145
- Self-propelled artillery
- 103#34 of 145
- Towed artillery
- 173#51 of 145
- Rocket artillery
- 165#29 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
- 31#32 of 113
- Mine warfare vessels
- 4#32 of 113
Finance
- Military spending
- $658 million#92 of 156
- Military spending as % of GDP
- 1.7%#77 of 156
- Purchasing power parity (GDP, PPP)
- $52.3 billion#105 of 145
Equipment and personnel: Global Firepower 2023 military strength ranking (2023). Spending: World Bank / SIPRI military expenditure data (CC BY 4.0).
Georgia military spending 2010–2025
Military spending of Georgia grew by 45% between 2010 and 2025, from $454 million to $658 million (current US dollars), and stood at 1.7% of GDP in 2025.
Armed forces of Georgia
Branches and forces
Georgian Defense Forces (GDF; aka Defense Forces of Georgia, DFG): Ground Forces, Air Force, Special Operations Forces, National Guard Ministry of Internal Affairs: Police, Border Police of Georgia, Coast Guard of Georgia (includes naval forces, which were merged with the Coast Guard in 2009) (2025)
Personnel
the Georgia Defense Forces are authorized up to 37,000 personnel (2025)
Service age and conscription
18-35 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription was abolished in 2016, but reinstated in 2017 for men 18-27 years of age; conscript service obligation is up to 11 months depending on the assigned ministry, job specialty, and if the service is carried out in a combat unit (2025)
Equipment and suppliers
the majority of the military's inventory consists of Soviet-era weapons and equipment, some of which has been upgraded; it has smaller quantities of mostly secondhand material from such countries as Israel, Poland, Türkiye, and the US, as well as some domestically produced equipment; Georgia has a small defense industry which produces such items as small arms and light armored vehicles (2025)
Good to know
the Defense Forces of Georgia (DFG) are responsible for protecting the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the country; the DFG also provides units for multinational military operations abroad and supports the Border Police in border protection and civil authorities in counter-terrorist operations, if requested; it is focused primarily on Russia, which maintains military bases and troops in occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia; a five-day conflict with Russian forces in 2008 resulted in the defeat and expulsion of Georgian forces from the breakaway regions Georgia is not a member of NATO but has had a relationship with the Alliance since 1992 and declared its aspiration to join in 2002; the military is working to make itself more compatible with NATO and has participated in multinational exercises and security operations abroad with NATO, such as Afghanistan, where it was one of the top non-NATO contributors, and Kosovo; the DFG has also contributed troops to EU and UN missions (2025)
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2024: 1.7% · 2023: 1.7% · 2022: 1.6% · 2021: 1.5% · 2020: 1.6%
Forces and service: CIA World Factbook (public domain).
Georgia compared with its neighbours
| Country | Strength rank | Military spending |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #85 | $658 million |
 Russia | #2 | $190.4 billion |
 Azerbaijan | #57 | $4.9 billion |
 Türkiye | #11 | $30.0 billion |
 Armenia | #94 | $1.7 billion |