| Military branches | National Armed Forces: Army, Guinean Navy (Armee de Mer or Marine Guineenne), Guinean Air Force (Force Aerienne de Guinee), Presidential Security Battalion (Battailon Autonome de la Sécurité Presidentielle, BASP), Gendarmerie (2020) |
| Military service age and obligation | no compulsory military service (2021) |
| Military expenditures - percent of GDP | 2% of GDP (2019) 2.3% of GDP (2018) 2.5% of GDP (2017) 2.5% of GDP (2016) 3.3% of GDP (2015) |
| Military and security service personnel strengths | Guinean National Armed Forces are comprised of approximately 12,000 active personnel (9,000 Army; 400 Navy; 800 Air Force; 300 BASP; 1,500 Gendarmerie) (2020) |
| Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the inventory of the Guinean military consists largely of ageing and outdated (mostly Soviet-era) equipment; since 2010, it has received small amounts of equipment from France, Russia, and South Africa (2020) |
| Military deployments | 660 Mali (MINUSMA) (Jan 2021) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021
