Guinea Military - 2021

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Military and security forces

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 expenditures

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the inventory of the Guinean military consists largely of ageing and outdated (mostly Soviet-era) equipment; since 2010, it has received small amounts of equipment from France, Russia, and South Africa (2020)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)

Military service age and obligation

no compulsory military service (2021)

NOTE: The information regarding Guinea 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 Guinea 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Guinea 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.