{"entity":{"iso2":"SS","iso3":"SSD","name":"South Sudan","slug":"south-sudan"},"indicator":{"licence":"CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)","slug":"armed-forces-personnel","source":"The Military Balance - International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank (2026) \u2013 processed by Our World in Data","source_url":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/armed-forces-personnel","title":"Armed forces personnel","unit":null},"observations":[{"date":"2010-01-01","value":140000.0},{"date":"2011-01-01","value":210000.0},{"date":"2012-01-01","value":210000.0},{"date":"2013-01-01","value":185000.0},{"date":"2014-01-01","value":185000.0},{"date":"2015-01-01","value":185000.0},{"date":"2016-01-01","value":185000.0},{"date":"2017-01-01","value":185000.0},{"date":"2018-01-01","value":185000.0},{"date":"2019-01-01","value":185000.0},{"date":"2020-01-01","value":53000.0}],"summary":{"latest_period":"2020-01-01","latest_value":53000.0,"max":210000.0,"mean":173455.0,"min":53000.0,"of":173,"rank":67,"trend":"falling"}}