Largest Armies In The World (1816-2023)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Join us as we explore the evolution of military power through history and discover the largest armies in the world based on active military personnel from 1816 to 2023. Using data from the Correlates of War project and World Population Review, we'll take a closer look at the factors that influence a country's military strength and examine how they've changed over time. From the powerful empires of the 19th century to the modern military superpowers of today, this video is a must-see for anyone interested in world history and military affairs
I don't see anybody talking about it, but I just wanna point out how wild the Bulgarian numbers are in 1912, you can see Bulgaria briefly jump to the 3rd spot in the world because of the 1st balkan war, when about 600k soldiers were raised. Now that doesn't sound too staggering until you realize that the entire population of the country at the time was about 4.3 mil. So in % that's about 13% of the population going to war, lol. To put that into nowadays perspective, Ukraine has a population of over 43 million with active personnel of about 700k. Then during WW1 Bulgaria raised about 800k soldiers as well. x)
I like how at 2:08 the Qing Dynasty literally says "excuse me, pardon" and blast all the way to the top.
I think it was because he couldn't find the Qing Data before that time point, so Qing wasn't on the list at all until that moment
United States and Russia: Hold up, I'm supposed to be there!
@@Pauligon606 france: shut.
and the german empire in 2:38
5:47 list goes impossible to comprehend
*5:47
Fr
Shit goes to 10 mil so quick
1. first egypt UK war 1807 2. Secound egypt UK war 1882 3. Egypt ottoman empire war 1831 1839 4. Navarin war 1827
Incredible that in WWII that Australia with only 7.5M people had for a time, the sixth largest armed forces. No wonder they handed out the first defeats on land to Vichy France, Italy, Germany and Japan.
australia is equal to cracked
I am australian
They amassed a large army, which was used to fight of the evil emu!
America better🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
@@Ihavpickle Imagine American power if it could equal Australian capability.
@@Ihavpickle bro honestly shut up
Proud to be a Human.
Proud to be an indian. 💪😎💪
🇮🇳
🕉️
WTF go to islam I'm Muslim pls go to Islam bro
It's almost useless in this era
@@SK93897yes
@@SK93897yes
@@SK93897you'll give your countries to intruders of china and Pakistan?👀
As a Turk, I can say that my country is in the middle of the world and wars. Even if we don't want war, war wants us. And as one of the nations that established the most states in history, we know how to defend ourselves well. We don't want war, but we are not afraid of war.
Turkey doesn’t want war lol good joke. There’s a reason almost all of Turkey’s neighbors hate them
Seems you have seen kgf , seeking your dialog in b/w 😂
I think he's scared but honest at the same time in a honorable style my friends.
@@TheAnonymousKnightOfJusticeNo my friend, we have no reason to fear. We are a nation that lives for our honor. And even though we know we will perish, we are always ready to fight for our honor.
Türk olmak zordur çunki tum dunyayi karşina alirsin lakin Türk olmamak daha da zordur çunki Türku karşina alirsin.
Bunu ancak damarlarinda Türk kani olanlar anlar.
INDIA 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 jai bhart 🧡🧡🧡 jai hindhustan🚩🚩🚩 jai sri ram 🙏🙏
jai 2gb ram
Besides the amount of people in the armies, we didn’t expect and don’t want any wars occurring
India 🇮🇳
HaPpy Independence day
5:08 то-есть чеченское восстание здесь показано как важное событие, а русско-японская война не упоминается? Отличное распределение приоритетов в важности событий.
присоединение крыма важнее иранской войны по мнению автора
that flag is not chechen bro
इसमें बहुत साथ त्रुटि दिखाया गया है
@@djengisjan4839 I don’t know where the author of the video got this flag from, but underneath it is written the Chechen uprising. It was shown as an important event. But the Russian-Japanese war is not in the timeline, although this is a very important event.
@@Kukuha_ehala_domoy yes
India🇮🇳
For a country that has always been relatively free of conflicts, Brazil has always had a sizeable military force.
That makes sense, they have a huge territory to defend
The military was pretty big in Brazil for a while. Sort of the culture.
Brazil mentioned 🗣️🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
The Republican Coup that took place in 1889 in Brazil took the country off the path to becoming a major world power. It is no surprise that after the imperial period, Brazil never recovered, remaining just a large territory and economy, without major social and technological advances, also because of successive populist governments, notably those on the left from the 1980s onwards. Brazil has everything it takes to be the greatest world power, this is just being postponed.
I love my country India 😘🇮🇳
Inshallah India become top 1
In 2050
I hope u ars safe there
@@hamzsportsgaming676 your education level show your mentality
@@Musical_World964 i am saying this because Indian government is killing Muslims
@@hamzsportsgaming676 My guy you're still a child. Take my advice, don't get stuck between this Hindu-Muslim and other religious bullshit. Focus on your goals in life and you'll achieve great things. Since you're a Pakistani living in UAE, you don't understand how the Indian subcontinent works. And yes, Muslims are safer here in India compared to minorities in most Islamic countries. They're growing in terms of population, they have been given equal opportunities and are treated equally by the law, despite whatever the ruling party says. India is a secular democratic nation after all.
We are above all because China has just reduced its army personnel
i am proud of Turkey, but I still don't like war
It’s turke not turkey
@r0m4n türkiye
4:24
4:25
Then Why are u watching this
Russia:I'm the largest
Ottoman empire: look behind you
Macedonian empire:Qing dynasty is the largest
Greece empire:ottoman I will kill you
Ottoman empire:nah bro you can't
Greece empire:wait can I explain
Ottoman empire :NO
Greece empire : die die
Ottoman empire:NOOOOOOO I LOST 7:01
Greece was called byzantium empire
Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905
I am proud of Indian army 🪖🪖🇮🇳🪖🇮🇳🪖🇮🇳🪖🇮🇳🪖 jay shree Ram 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
🇮🇹🤝🏻🇩🇪🤝🏻🇦🇹🤝🏻🇯🇵 here we meet again good ol' fellas...
This video is awesome but you just missed 1 things which is Spanish civil war (not pretty far from WW2) anyways really interesting video and proud of being Spanish 🇪🇦
Awesome video
First 8 days of war between USSR and Germany USSR had more than 8-9 millions soldiers
Nope they had around 5.5 million soldiers and through the war by the end around 35 million men served the motherland and the USSR’s peak in ww2 was an estimated 11 million
first 2 years of war USSR was an ally of Germany.
@@victoriacoleman966в первые же дни началась мобилизация, по исходу которой 1 июля 1941 года в РККА насчитывалось 10,4 миллиона солдат. Информация от историка Спицына и других
It’s crazy that at one point Belgium had a bigger army than the USA
I didn’t expect Bulgaria to get on there
Edit: whenever there’s a world war, the whole thing turns into a mess.
bulgaria got on the list because of the balkan wars, a series of wars where the balkan powers beat up the ottomans, then the rest of the balkan powers and the ottomans beat up the bulgarians
You forgot the War of afeghanistan and iraq iran (1980)
This is very accurate, but I think you missed Franco-Prussian War
And Iran-Iraq war...
Well you can't expect anything to be totally perfect
Russo-Japanese War
Hi. I am Indonesian. Let's spread Peace and love
I am an Indian
And our motive is also of piece and love
But he has kept this much of huge army because he is surrounded by many violent country like China and Pakistan. So just for self defence😊😊
No
@@Ihavpickle What no
Proud to be Indian
who asked
@@TheMOfficial500 Who asked you to comment 😆
@@HimanshuSingh_009 you did
@@TheMOfficial500 But who replied me first
As an Indian, i didn't even know that India is was a superpower from republic till now 💀
Your didn't get proper education?
@@Jchi737 I don't know I'm still a student in 7th grade, and in our course there is only Akbar , babur, himayun blah blah blah.
@@tulsiramyadav6558 you're not in 7😂and u should know about ur country
@@Jchi737 I'm in and it's not my fault I'm not taught about it. our education system is bad.
@@Jchi737 I only know that since our independence we stay weak till 1970-80 and suffered from economic conditions. Because that's what teachers are teaching us.
However, The government is 'bout to change the education till 2024.
1878-1900 Qing: Maybe lets have more than 1 Million soldiers. Maybe less. Meh maybe more. Less. More.
1900 Russia: Are you mocking me? *invades Manchuria. Qing: meh I don't care. Where was I? More. Less.
Proud to be Indonesian 🇮🇩
I'm a Filipino
@@rafaelandrevillahermosa-md9xk I'm a Indian
@@rafaelandrevillahermosa-md9xkme too
In 1941 I just had the American f yeah song in my head lol
Soviet unions lead just drops when they collapse it’s hilarious.
According to the historical data , your some informations are incorrect
In 1947 did india come and
indian army rank is 2 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳😁😁🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
That’s not fair you are over 1 billion people 😂 our population is Less than a tenth of you (86 million ) And the sources for Iran's military power do not consider the” Sipah”, which has much more armed forces than the army and we are 7th
( by the way I love India I think if England had not dominated India as I know we even were talking same language (Farsi ) )
@@MahdiA9015 no Farsi bro here in India there are many languages around 365 languages are India which are identified other are much more
Nice vid
I didn’t even know that Prussia exists 😂
It does not exist anymore. It became part of the German Empire in 1870. After WW2 most of its former land was given to Poland. What is left of former Prussia today is Berlin, Pommern and Brandenburg. But nobody call them Prussians anymore.
@@earlsinclair9299 but why so weird name "Prussia" its like Russia with P in front :D
@@OneEyedKing1337 It looks less weird in German because endonyms tend to make some sense./g /lh
@@OneEyedKing1337 In Russian, Prussia is pronounced “prusia”, and Russia is pronounced “rasia”
@@earlsinclair9299 the German empire formed in 1871. Not 1870
I like how Sweden is visible throughout almost the whole video
Not completely accurate but good video 👍
Pakistan 🇵🇰 Zindabad!!!! 😊
I like how USA went to the top and said BYE BYE and they went down 2:22
Is this by active personal
Yes it is.
India🇮🇳 💖🇷🇺Russia...show the power
👇
power of 2 lol
ew usa betta
@@birbboi2986 😄
Wrong info. Turkiye has 85.000.000 military personels. Because everyone in Turkiye is born soldiers.
🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 "HER TÜRK ASKER DOĞAR." 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷
this shows how important the navy was to britain. they were able to dominate the world for a good 60% of this video without ever needing to be #1 army
Just to end up drinking and vomiting all over the countries they go, impressive
@@juanlualicante better than the french who bring their baguette stench everywhere or the americans who are too loud for their own good
Good point Hi from India
Brittania ruled the seas baby
A very relative domination (except on the seas), in Europe the political power of Britain was far from unchecked.
I think that historically, USA in their heydays dominated the world far more completely, at least until the 2010s with the rise of China.
Starts with Pakistan not even exist and ends with Pakistan on number 5th 💀
From Iraq 🇮🇶 ❤
From Türkiye 🇹🇷 ❤
Iraq 1990 😎😎💀💀🔥🔥🔥🇮🇶
At its peak strength in WWII, the USA commanded the largest army it ever will at 12 million soldiers.
Absolutely insane…
16 million to be exact.
Had Germany never started the war on the eastern front they could've gone to over 25 million and in total in real life the germans had 17 million soldiers mostly bc Germany had constant huge losses bc off huge wars on multiple fronts so its kinda impressive how they managed to get to almost 8 million soldier at it's peak considering the losses on the eastern fromt at that point
But according to time period's population Muryan army was bigger
The British army at it's peak during WW2 had 4 million troops i find that impressive for a small island.
I thought the ussr in ww2 had 34 million soldiers why only 11 and 12 million? Am confused i tried searching the answers in google but couldnt find a single clue to where 3/5 of soldiers go
Because 22 Million died
This was the first one of these that provoked an emotional response out of me. The war time fluctuations are heartbreaking.
Why the italian flag is not correct??
1:51 italy partice to the Crimean war
Italy it's called kingdom of sardina
The way America fell like that was crazy
Well usa made a comeback
The Red Army in 1945 counted 11.3 million soldiers
2:00 USA be like: GAS GAS GAS
entente in 1919 be like:
germany u cant have 100k+ troops
germany:having114k troops
Proud to be Brazilian 🇧🇷😎.
My friend used to live there, she said it is an amazing beautiful place just have to be a bit careful of your possessions.
Nosso presidente é um ladrão condenado 😅😢
rise of Nations ranking every second:
6:29 the time Taiwanese millitary was strong
Yeah and did you know the leaders of qing dynasty wasnt china but taiwan
@@OthisGTAG no they were manchud
ممنون بابت اطلاعات و داده های مفید ، اما درباره ایران بیشتر بسازید
Asıl güç sahada belli olur. 🇹🇷
"Ne mutlu Türk'üm diyene"
Turkey isn't even in top 10 strongest 😂
@@VlexOP bunlar sadece sayısal işler asıl güç içimizdeki vatan sevgisidir. Daha önce bir çok kez kanıtladık eğer bilmiyorsan tarih oku. 'Cahil'
@@VlexOP Birgün savaşırsan görürsün ne kadar güçlü olduğunu. Kurtuluş Savaşı'nda Türklerin neler yaptığını araştır. 😉
I dont know why, but I LOVE the music in 2:34, I know this is non war-related or army-related stuff, but I just wanted to say it. For the record, I am learning a couple of stuff, since I'm still in High School.
Facts: Number of American soldier is small then Bulgaria.
What
@@Bluecolord bulgaria was once strongest nation in world, but Bulgaria nice so give land to other country
@@therealgaben5527 it was never the strongest
@The real GabeN sense when?
1950s: wow countries play chess
苏联老大哥虽然逝去，但我们会继承老大哥红色旗帜发扬光大🇨🇳
Спасибо! ❤
Спасибо наш Китайский друг 🇷🇺❤🇨🇳
And also thats not accurate brazil don't only have 300k Man and woman in the army and also we are not 14th we are 12th and some probably 3 years ago we were like top 10th so yeah.
The Vietnam War was a war caused by the US imperialism and allied armies (including Thailand, Korea, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand) invading Vietnam, so the Vietnam War also included the US Empire not just South Vietnam
Nobodys gon talk but how sweden has very low population and yet managed to be on the leaderboard 90% of the time
As a citizen of South Korea, I express my respect and gratitude to the soldiers from around the world who sacrificed their lives for freedom and democracy in the Korean War.
child of usa :))
别天真了 那场战争只是美苏争霸的小插曲
If vietnam + reserve army =.... Very cool
Proud of India🇮🇳
Same ❤🇮🇳🇮🇳
What exactly do you mean with ITALY before 1859?
The fact Myanmar made the list is crazy it’s one of those countries that’s massive but a lot of People do not know I do love Myanmar ❤from 🇺🇸
@ensorion4245 how I am just saying y’all dumb for not knowing Myanmar maybe you love genocide sorry I need to add the accent génocide
شكلي واني عراقي💀
Proud to be not on the list lol
I despise weapons and wars
Russia is always with India ♥️♥️♥️😎
Russia China and India are the superpower of XXI century
I'm so surprised that N.Korea is this strong...
Russia is more powerful in every time
No it isn't
Pov: itali was unificated in the March of 1861
The amazing thing about this clip is, that at no time, not once during it did the UK ever get close to been the top national army. But basically for two thirds to three quarters of this entire time frame, 1815 to 2023 it was the most powerful hegemony on the planet. Easily and often destroying those armies listed at or near the top, Russian Empire 1855 and Qing Empire 1865 for example. They basically smashed any army that opposed them for a century and half, no fuss, no matter how big they were. They would often take on a whole nation with a tiny force and do the business, the punitive expedition to Abyssinia by Lord Napier who defeated Emperor Theodore is a good example. A small force of fifteen thousand, marched overland through tropical country and full of hostile tribes. Smashed the Emperors mountain top fortress strong hole of Magdala, freed the hostages and then marched back out again with the loss of very few men, all the time against overwhelming numbers.
They had the largest navy but not army.
@@WatchmansArchive That is the point I was trying to make, it was not the largest army by any means, but it was certainly the most powerful army for most of that time. As they say its not who has the most, its who can get there with the most, and the best that wins.
And yet we Americans kicked their behinds
@@dolphingoreeaccount7395we had an empire to build in Africa and india plus we had the french to fight. Defeating A few insurgent colonists wasn't at the top of the list lol.
@@dolphingoreeaccount7395 You mean you Americas like to think you kicked their behinds, the War of Independence was a side show for Britain and they were busy with real enemies at the time, plus there was also a lot of sympathy for the colonists in the British parliament at the time. The War of independence was also much earlier than the stated dates of 1815 to 2023 in this video. Now the war of 1812 is closer to the date discussed, and in 1812 the British Army marched to Washington and burnt out the White House, so it had to be painted white to hide the scorch marks and its still white to this day, that while they were also busy flogging Napolean as well. The bottom line is at anytime from 1760 until 1900 Britain could have if they really wanted to could have dealt the USA a death blow, but they were never of a mind to. Even in the American Civil War if Britain had supported the South, well goodnight Irene to United States of America, the fact that the south were slave states ensured that support was never forthcoming. I have read that Palmerston would have recognised the South if they had won Gettysburg, if he had then the South would have been independent till this day no doubt.
Iraq: 4rd
US: no no no you are gonna be 45th
Saddam hussein comes ALLAH AKBAR ALLAH AKBAR (gets 1000000+ soldiers)
US gets 2000000+ soldiers
US: bye bye iraq
And the new iraq comes… 🇮🇶
China may have larger armies than usa, but its more like a quantity over quality situation
Дурачок, армия Китая явно сильнее США, так как с Китаем - Россия, а с Россией - Китай.
@@ДимаПитух-щ3ъ:/
@@ДимаПитух-щ3ъ you can't believe the quality of "made in China" Products.
Yep, your grand-grandpa thought of the same way in Korean war.
@@joejiang1499 Indeed, During the chinese civil war, the communist were outnumbered, yet won the civil war.. atleast.. for now…
I can tell this video was made with clipchamp
I just learned all 4 years of High School History Class in 10 minutes 😂😂😂
Paraguayan War: I don't exist.
5:44 Red army stronger
India 🇮🇳 🔥
Size does not matter. What matters is advancements and technology. The strength of a military. In that regard the U.S wins.
the United States wins only in the fact that it enters the war when it is already clear who won and it is necessary to help him
Size does matter.. my girlfriend said so
Sounds like something an american would say
Thats why the russians and qing were never good at war, and but having good technology and a large army can take you to great lengths as shown by Germany and US.
@@backbonez8244 i mean, hes not wrong
*WW1*
The countries: ⬇️⬆️➡️⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️⬆️➡️⬇️➡️⬆️⬆️⬇️➡️⬆️⬅️⬅️⬅️
Im proud of my India 😊
🇮🇷❤️
Germany in WW2 be like: LOS NIMMT DIE RUSSEN EIN
Proud of Vietnam🇻🇳
5:56
Italian empire: I’m 3rd I will be 1st in 1964…
Last words
3:35 Proudly Mexican to see that Mexico was on this list
If Spain kept Mexico they would be so strong nowadays
kinda disappointed turkey couldn't even reach a million
Proud to be indian 🇮🇳
You should proud for live in the most racist country
Russias military population decreasing as soon as they get in a war😭😭 every other nation’s military went way up when going into war until they lost so Russia started off with a massive L 😭😭
Shocking how america dropped by 1M so quickly… (2:20)
Mobilization, Most countries in Europe have large standing armies, America did not, so they mobilize civilians and give them basic training for war.
Size means nothing you can have millions of troops and go against a small military and get completely demolished it's all about training, weapons and having a heart to not give up when outnumbered that's how you win a war. The British are living proof you can have a small military and be one of the most powerful in the world.
Iran❤