The Global Firepower’s Military Strength Rankings for 2024 has assigned the US military as the most powerful military globally. Russia has the second most powerful army followed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. India has been assigned the fourth position.
India’s nuclear-armed neighbour Pakistan has been ranked ninth in the list. According to the Global Firepower’s assessment, India holds a PowerIndex (PwrIndx) score of 0.1023. (A score of 0.0000 is considered ‘perfect’). The US holds a Power Index score of 0.0699, Russia 0.0702 and China 0. 0706. A lower PowerIndex score indicates that the nation has stronger military capabilities.
The Global Firepower Index rates the military strength of all countries based on factors like weapon numbers to weapon diversity and natural resources, including available industries to the workforce, financial stability, logistical capability and geography and 60 other factors.
It evaluates a total of 145 world powers. The website is dedicated to keeping track of global defence information. “Our unique, in-house formula allows for smaller, more technologically advanced nations to compete with larger, lesser-developed powers, and special modifiers, in the form of bonuses and penalties, are applied to further refine the list, which is compiled annually,” Global Firepower said in a release.
Their report also indicates how each nation’s ranking has changed from one year to the next.
The 10 nations with the most powerful militaries in the world are:
- US
- Russia
- China
- India
- South Korea
- UK
- Japan
- Turkey
- Pakistan
- Italy
The rankings also revealed which nations have some of the world’s least powerful armies. Here’s how they rank with the least powerful militaries ranked first:
- Bhutan
- Moldova
- Suriname
- Somalia
- Benin
- Liberia
- Belize
- Sierra Leone
- Central African Republic
- Iceland
It should be noted that barring Bhutan, Suriname, Belize and Iceland – the other militaries mentioned in the list, namely, Somalia, Benin, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic and Liberia, are involved in active conflicts for several years with rebel groups, jihadists and other militant groups who pose threat to governance in those nations.
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