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Military expenditures
1.9% of GDP (2023 est.)
1.9% of GDP (2022)
1.9% of GDP (2021)
2% of GDP (2020)
1.8% of GDP (2019)

ARMY
ACTIVE 203,850 (Army 113,800 Navy 34,650 Air
40,200, Other Staffs 15,200) Gendarmerie & Paramilitary 95,100
RESERVE 37,300 (Army 22,550 Navy 4,900 Air
5,000 Other Staffs 4,850) Gendarmerie & Paramilitary 31,500

Military equipment inventories and acquisitions
The French military’s inventory consists mostly of domestically pro-
duced weapons systems, including some jointly produced with oth-
er European countries; there is a limited mix of armaments from
other Western countries, particularly the US; France has a large and
sophisticated defense industry capable of manufacturing the full
spectrum of air, land, and naval military weapons systems

Note: two major future acquisition programs for the French military included the Franco-German-Spanish Future Com-
bat Air System, or FCAS (known in France as the système combat aérien du futur, or SCAF) and a next-generation tank
development project with Germany known as the Main Ground Combat System, or MGCS

Military deployments
France typically has up to 30,000 total air, ground, and naval forces deployed on permanent or temporary foreign mis-
sions; up to 10,000 are permanently deployed, including Djibouti (1,400); French Guyana (2,000); French Polynesia (900);
French West Indies (1,000); Reunion Island (1,700); West Africa (1,600; Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Senegal), and the UAE (700)
Other non-permanent deployments include operations in Chad (1,000), NATO missions in Europe (2,000), the Middle
East (850), and various EU (500) and UN (over 700, mostly in Lebanon under UNIFIL) missions

Defense Volume
With 5,000 companies and 400,000 jobs in the defence sector (including 165,000 direct jobs in the armament industry),
French industry accounts for over 25% of European capabilities.