Liberia vs. Sierra Leone

Military

	Liberia	Sierra Leone
Military branches	Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL): Army, Liberian Coast Guard (2021) note - an AFL Air Wing is under development; it was previously disbanded in 2005, but two Liberian pilots completed training by the Nigerian Air Force in 2018	Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF): combined ground, air, and maritime forces (2020)
Military service age and obligation	18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2019)	18-29 for voluntary military service; women are eligible to serve; no conscription (2019)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP	0.5% of GDP (2019) 0.4% of GDP (2018) 0.4% of GDP (2017) 0.4% of GDP (2016) 0.4% of GDP (2015)	0.7% of GDP (2019) 0.7% of GDP (2018) 0.4% of GDP (2017) 0.3% of GDP (2016) 0.3% of GDP (2015)
Military and security service personnel strengths	the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) have approximately 2,000 personnel (2020)	the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) have approximately 9,000 personnel, mostly ground forces (2021)
Military equipment inventories and acquisitions	the AFL has almost no significant combat hardware as nearly all aircraft, equipment, materiel, and facilities were damaged or destroyed during the country's civil war; it has received little new equipment outside of ammunition, small arms, and trucks from China in 2008, and boats and vehicles donated by the US in the 2010s (2020)	the RSLAF's small inventory includes a mix of Soviet-origin and other older foreign-supplied equipment; since 2010, it has received limited quantities of material (mostly donations of second-hand equipment) from China and South Africa (2020)

Source: CIA Factbook