Cameroon vs Sierra Leone: Armed forces personnel as a share of total population

Cameroon
0.1%
in 2020
Sierra Leone
0.1%
in 2020
Cameroon rank
143rd
Sierra Leone rank
146th

Armed forces personnel as a share of total population over time

  • Cameroon
  • Sierra Leone
0.10.20.30.4198520022020

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 0.1% against 0.1% in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.0%.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Sierra Leone's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Cameroon ranks 143rd and Sierra Leone ranks 146th of 173 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Armed forces personnel as a share of total population
Unit
%
Source
The Military Balance - International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank (2026); Population based on various sources (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
173 places, 5,352 data points, 1985–2020
Last refreshed

Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if their training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces.