Albania Military - 2021

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Military and security forces

General Staff, Land Forces Command, Navy Force Command (includes Coast Guard), Air Forces Command, Support Command, Training and Doctrination Command (2021)

Military expenditures

1.3% of GDP (2020 est.)

1.31% of GDP (2019)

1.16% of GDP (2018)

1.11% of GDP (2017)

1.1% of GDP (2016)

Military and security service personnel strengths

information varies; approximately 8,000 total active duty personnel (6,000 Army; 1,500 Navy; 500 Air Force) (2020)

Military equipment inventories and acquisitions

the Albanian military was previously equipped with mostly Soviet-era weapons that were sold or destroyed; its inventory now includes a mix of mostly donated and second-hand European and US equipment; since 2010, it has received limited amounts of equipment from France, Germany, and the US (2020)

Military deployments

100 Afghanistan (NATO) (2021)

Military service age and obligation

19 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; 18 is the legal minimum age in case of general/partial compulsory mobilization; conscription abolished 2010 (2019)

Military - note

Albania officially became a member of NATO in 2009

NOTE: The information regarding Albania on this page is re-published from the 2021 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Albania 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Albania 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.