Slovenia Military - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Military and security forces

Slovenian Armed Forces (Slovenska Vojska, SV): structured as a combined force with air, land, maritime, special operations, combat support, and combat service support elements (2022)

Military expenditures

1.2% of GDP (2022 est.)

1.2% of GDP (2021)

1% of GDP (2020)

1.1% of GDP (2019) (approximately $800 million)

1% of GDP (2018) (approximately $750 million)

Military and security service personnel strengths

approximately 6,000 active duty troops (2022)

Military equipment inventories and acquisitions

the military's inventory is a mix of Soviet-era and smaller quantities of more modern Russian and Western equipment; since 2010, it has received limited amounts of military equipment from several countries led by France and Russia (2021)

Military service age and obligation

18-25 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription abolished in 2003 (2021)

note: as of 2019, women comprised about 15% of the military's full-time personnel

Military deployments

200 Kosovo (NATO); 100 Slovakia (NATO) (2022)

note: in response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, some NATO countries, including Slovenia, have sent additional troops and equipment to the battlegroups deployed in NATO territory in eastern Europe

Military - note

Slovenia became a member of NATO in 2004; Hungary and Italy provide NATO's air policing mission for Slovenia’s airspace (2022)

NOTE: The information regarding Slovenia 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 Slovenia 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Slovenia 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.