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EGYPT

Population Military Expenditures Military Expenditures
109,546,720 (2023 est.) 1.2% of GDP (2022) $4.64B (2022)
Real GDP (purchasing power parity) 1.3% of GDP (2021) $5.17B (2021)
$1.81 trillion (2023 est.) 1.3% of GDP (2020) $4.51B (2020)
$1.67 trillion (2022) 1.3% of GDP (2019) $3.74B (2019)
$1.47 trillion (2021) 1.4% of GDP (2018) $3.12B (2018)
$1.36 trillion (2020)
$1.3 trillion (2019)
$1.21 trillion (2018)

ARMY its armed forces. In Egypt and other regional states,
ACTIVE 438,500 (Army 310,000 Navy 18,500 Air important recent trend has been a diversification of arms
30,000 Air Defence Command 80,000) Gendarmerie & suppliers and defence partners. While Cairo historically
Paramilitary 397,000 procured from Washington, it has increasingly turned to
Conscription liability 12–36 months (followed by Europe (mainly France but also Germany and Italy). While
refresher training over a period of up to 9 years) most of their crewed air platforms still come from these
RESERVE 479,000 (Army 375,000 Navy 14,000 Air 20,000 traditional Western suppliers, Egypt has increasingly
Air Defence Command 70,000) turned to other sources for UAVs and air defence
systems. Over the past few years, for armed UAVs, Egypt
Defense oriented issues turned to China (2018).
Egypt has one of the largest military forces in the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) and the largest inventory Military equipment inventories and acquisitions
of major weapons in the region. Amid a growing The Egyptian Armed Forces’s (EAF) inventory is
perception of intensified domestic and regional security comprised of a mix of domestically produced, Soviet-
threats, Egypt, under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has era, and more modern, particularly Western, weapons
made consider able investments to modernize and train systems; in recent years, the EAF has embarked on an