Indicator	Value
Military expenditure (% GDP)	6.79 %SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Military expenditure	5,010,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Armed forces personnel	463,000 peopleWorld Bank WDI [2020]
Arms imports	222,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Arms exports	No authoritative open source found
Military & security forces	Burmese Defense Service (aka Armed Forces of Burma, Myanmar Army, Royal Armed Forces, the Tatmadaw, or the Sit-Tat): Army (Tatmadaw Kyi), Navy (Tatmadaw Yay), Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay); People’s MilitiaMinistry of Home Affairs: Burma (People's) Police Force, Border Guard Forces/Police (2025); note: note 1: under the 2008 constitution, the Tatmadaw was given control over the appointments of senior officials to lead the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Border Affairs, and the Ministry of Home Affairs; in 2022, a new law gave the commander-in-chief of the Tatmadaw the authority to appoint or remove the head of the police forcenote 2: the military is supported by pro-government militias; some are integrated within the Tatmadaw’s command structure as Border Guard Forces, which are organized as battalions with a mix of militia forces, ethnic armed groups, and government soldiers that are armed, supplied, and paid by the Tatmadaw; other pro-military government militias are not integrated within the Tatmadaw command structure but receive direction and some support from the military and are recognized as government militias; a third type of pro-government militias are small community-based units that are armed, coordinated, and trained by local Tatmadaw forces and activated as neededCIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Military service age & obligation	18-35 years of age (men) and 18-27 years of age (women) for voluntary and conscripted military service; 24-month service obligation; conscripted professional men (ages 18-45) and women (ages 18-35), including doctors, engineers, and mechanics, serve up to 36 months; service terms may be extended to 60 months in an officially declared emergency (2025); note: in February 2024, the military government announced that the People’s Military Service Law requiring mandatory military service would go into effect; the Service Law was first introduced in 2010 but had not previously been enforced; the military government also said that it intended to call up about 60,000 men and women annually for mandatory service; during the ongoing insurgency, the military has recruited men 18-60 to serve in local militiasCIA World Factbook [2025] · 2026 archive
Arms imports (USD)	222,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Arms exports (USD)	No authoritative open source found
Military spending (% of GDP)	6.79 %SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]
Military spending (USD)	5,010,000,000 US$SIPRI via World Bank WDI [2024]