Military profile
Luxembourg Military Strength
Luxembourg ranks #126 of 145 in the Global Firepower military strength ranking, with 1,000 active personnel. It spent $855 million on its military in 2025 (0.9% of GDP).
Luxembourg armed forces in numbers
Personnel
- Active military personnel
- 1,000#142 of 145
- Reserve military personnel
- 0#84 of 145
- Paramilitary forces
- 0#113 of 145
- Army personnel
- 950#143 of 145
- Air force personnel
- 0#138 of 145
- Navy personnel
- 0#113 of 145
Air power
- Total military aircraft
- 1#140 of 145
- Fighter aircraft
- 0#95 of 145
- Attack aircraft
- 0#65 of 145
- Military helicopters
- 0#138 of 145
- Attack helicopters
- 0#79 of 145
Land forces
- Tanks
- 0#115 of 145
- Self-propelled artillery
- 0#96 of 145
- Towed artillery
- 0#107 of 145
- Rocket artillery
- 0#98 of 145
Finance
- Military spending
- $855 million#86 of 156
- Military spending as % of GDP
- 0.9%#127 of 156
- Purchasing power parity (GDP, PPP)
- $70.0 billion#96 of 145
Equipment and personnel: Global Firepower 2023 military strength ranking (2023). Spending: World Bank / SIPRI military expenditure data (CC BY 4.0).
Luxembourg military spending 2010–2025
Military spending of Luxembourg grew by 377% between 2010 and 2025, from $179 million to $855 million (current US dollars), and stood at 0.9% of GDP in 2025.
Armed forces of Luxembourg
Branches and forces
Luxembourg Army (l'Armée Luxembourgeoise) (2025)
Personnel
approximately 900 active military personnel (2025)
Service age and conscription
18-26 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; no conscription (abolished 1969) (2025)
Equipment and suppliers
the Luxembourg Army has a small mix of Western origin equipment (2025)
Good to know
founded in 1881, the Luxembourg Army is responsible for the defense of the country and fulfilling the Grand Duchy’s commitments to NATO, European security, and international peacekeeping, as well as providing support to civil authorities in the event of emergencies, such as floods or disease outbreaks; the Army is an active participant in EU, NATO, and UN missions and has contributed small numbers of troops to a number of multinational operations in parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia; it trains and exercises regularly with EU and NATO partners and has contributed to the NATO battlegroup forward deployed in Lithuania since 2017; Luxembourg was one of the original 12 countries to sign the North Atlantic Treaty (also known as the Washington Treaty) establishing NATO in 1949 in 2015, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg signed an agreement to conduct joint air policing of their territories; under the agreement, which went into effect in January 2017, the Belgian and Dutch Air Forces trade responsibility for patrolling the skies over the three countries (2025)
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
2025: 2% · 2024: 1.2% · 2023: 1.1% · 2022: 0.6% · 2021: 0.5%
Forces and service: CIA World Factbook (public domain).
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