| Military branches | Swiss Armed Forces: Land Forces, Swiss Air Force (Schweizer Luftwaffe) (2021) |
| Military service age and obligation | 18-30 years of age generally for male compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary male and female military service; every Swiss male has to serve at least 245 days in the armed forces; conscripts receive 18 weeks of mandatory training, followed by six 19-day intermittent recalls for training during the next 10 years (2021) |
| Military expenditures - percent of GDP | 0.7% of GDP (2019) 0.7% of GDP (2018) 0.7% of GDP (2017) 0.7% of GDP (2016) 0.7% of GDP (2015) |
| Military and security service personnel strengths | the Swiss Armed Forces maintain a full-time professional cadre of about 4,000 personnel along with approximately 20,000 conscripts brought in annually for 18-23 weeks of training; approximately 120,000 reserve forces (2021) |
| Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the Swiss Armed Forces inventory includes a mix of domestically-produced and imported weapons systems; the US is the leading supplier of military armaments to Switzerland since 2010; the Swiss defense industry produces a range of military land vehicles (2020) |
| Military deployments | 165 Kosovo (NATO/KFOR) (2021) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021
