Indicator	Value
Military expenditure (% GDP)	0.651 %SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Military expenditure	922,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Armed forces personnel	138,000 peopleWorld Bank WDI [2020]
Arms imports	48,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Arms exports	17,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [1997]
Military & security forces	Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF; aka Federal Defense Force of Ethiopia, FDRE): Army, Air Force, Naval Force, Defense Cyber Main Directorate (2025); note: note 1: national and regional police forces are responsible for law enforcement and maintenance of order, with the ENDF sometimes providing internal security support; the Ethiopian Federal Police (EFP) report to the Prime Minister’s Officenote 2: the regional governments control regional security forces, including "special" paramilitary forces, which generally operate independently from the federal government and in some cases operate as regional defense forces maintaining national borders; in April 2023, the federal government ordered the integration of these regional special forces into the EFP or ENDF; in some cases, the regional governments have maintained former members of the special forces for “crowd control/Adma Bitena” as a separate unit within their security structures; local militias also operate across the country in loose and varying coordination with regional security and police forces, the ENDF, and the EFPnote 3: in 2018, Ethiopia established a Republican Guard military unit as a separate command operationally under the Office of the Prime Minister and administratively accountable to the Ministry of Defense; it is responsible for protecting senior officials and government institutions and conducting some military operationsCIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Military service age & obligation	18-22 years of age for voluntary military service; 24-month service obligation; no compulsory military service, but the military can conduct callups when necessary and compliance is compulsory (2025)CIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Arms imports (USD)	48,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Arms exports (USD)	17,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [1997]
Military spending (% of GDP)	0.651 %SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Military spending (USD)	922,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]