Burundi Military - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Military and security forces

National Defense Forces (Forces de Defense Nationale, FDN): Army (includes maritime wing, air wing); Ministry of Public Security: National Police (Police Nationale du Burundi) (2022)

Military expenditures

2% of GDP (2021 est.)

2.1% of GDP (2020 est.)

3% of GDP (2019 est.) (approximately $120 million)

2.3% of GDP (2018 est.) (approximately $100 million)

2.1% of GDP (2017 est.) (approximately $95 million)

Military and security service personnel strengths

approximately 30,000 active duty troops, the majority of which are ground forces (2022)

Military equipment inventories and acquisitions

the FDN is armed mostly with weapons from Russia and the former Soviet Union, with some Western equipment, largely from France; since 2010, the FDN has received small amounts of mostly second-hand equipment from China, South Africa, and the US (2021)

Military service age and obligation

18 years of age for voluntary military service (2021)

Military deployments

760 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 5,400 Somalia (ATMIS) (2022)

Military - note

in addition to its foreign deployments, the FDN was focused on internal security missions, particularly against rebel groups opposed to the regime such as National Forces of Liberation (FNL), the Resistance for the Rule of Law-Tabara (aka RED Tabara), and Popular Forces of Burundi (FPB or FOREBU); these groups were based in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and have carried out sporadic attacks in Burundi (2022)

NOTE: The information regarding Burundi on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Burundi 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Burundi 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.