Military and security service personnel strengths | information varies; estimated 35-40,000 active FAMa, Gendarmerie, and National Guard (2025) |
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Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the FAMa's inventory includes a large amount of Soviet-era weapons and equipment along with smaller quantities of secondhand and some more modern material from a variety of other countries, including China, Czechia, France, Russia, Turkey, and the UAE (2024) |
Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for men and women for selective compulsory and voluntary military service; 24-month compulsory service obligation (2023). |
Military deployments | note 1: in 2024, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger announced they were forming joint force of 5,000 troops to combat extremist groups in the Sahel note 2: until announcing its withdrawal in May of 2022, Mali was part of a five-nation anti-jihadist task force known as the G5 Sahel Group, set up in 2014 with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger; Mali had committed 1,100 troops and 200 gendarmes to the force. |
Military expenditures | |
Military Expenditures 2024 | 4.3% of GDP (2024 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2023 | 4% of GDP (2023 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2022 | 3.5% of GDP (2022 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2021 | 3.4% of GDP (2021 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2020 | 3.4% of GDP (2020 est.) |
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