| Military branches | Royal Armed Forces: Royal Moroccan Army, Royal Moroccan Navy (includes Coast Guard, marines), Royal Moroccan Air Force, Morroccan Royal Guard (provides security for the royal family; officially part of the Royal Army); Royal Morroccan Gendarmerie (Ministry of Defense); Mobile Intervention Corps (a motorized paramilitary security force under the Ministry of Interior that supplements the military and the police as needed) (2020) |
| Military service age and obligation | 19 years of age for compulsory military service (reintroduced in 2019); both sexes are obligated to military service; conscript service obligation - 12 months (2019) |
| Military expenditures - percent of GDP | 3.8% of GDP (2020 est.) 3.1% of GDP (2019) 3.1% of GDP (2018) 3.2% of GDP (2017) 3.2% of GDP (2016) |
| Military and security service personnel strengths | the Royal Armed Forces have approximately 200,000 active personnel (175,000 Army; 10,000 Navy; 15,000 Air Force); est. 25,000 Gendarmerie (2021) |
| Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the Moroccan military's inventory is comprised of mostly older French and US equipment; since 2010, France and the US are the leading suppliers of weapons to Morocco (2020) |
| Military deployments | 750 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 925 Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) (Jan 2021) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021
