€51.95 bn (2024)[6]
€71.75 bn (2024) Incl. 2nd tranche of special assets[6]
Percent of GDP
2.01% (2024)[7]
Industry
Domestic suppliers
Airbus Rheinmetall Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Hensoldt MBDA Deutschland GmbH Heckler & Koch Diehl Defence Carl Walther GmbH
Foreign suppliers
United States Israel France Sweden United Kingdom Netherlands Switzerland Canada Italy Belgium Poland Croatia Austria Norway
Annual imports
US$85 million (2014-2022)[8]
Annual exports
US$1.53 billion (2014-2022)[8]
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Ranks
Ranks of the German Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr (German:[ˈbʊndəsˌveːɐ̯]ⓘ, literally Federal Defence) is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Bundeswehr is divided into a military part (armed forces or Streitkräfte) and a civil part, the military part consisting of the German Army, the German Navy, the German Air Force, the Joint Support Service, the Joint Medical Service, and the Cyber and Information Domain Service.
As of 31 May 2023[update], the Bundeswehr had a strength of 181,672 active-duty military personnel and 81,612 civilians,[4] placing it among the 30 largest military forces in the world, and making it the second largest in the European Union behind France. In addition, the Bundeswehr has approximately 34,600 reserve personnel (2023).[5] With German military expenditures at $55.8 billion (2022),[9] the Bundeswehr is the seventh highest-funded military in the world, though military expenditures remain relatively average at 1.4% of national GDP,[9] well below the non-binding NATO target of 2%. Germany is aiming to expand the Bundeswehr to around 203,000 soldiers by 2025 to better cope with increasing responsibilities.[10]
Following concerns from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Germany announced a major shift in policy, pledging a €100 billion special fund for the Bundeswehr – to remedy years of underinvestment – along with raising the budget to above 2% GDP.[11]
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^"Art 115b Basic Law". Gesetze-im-internet.de. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
^ ab"Aktuelle Personalzahlen der Bundeswehr [Current personnel numbers of the Federal Defence]". Retrieved 28 January 2024.
^ ab"Auftrag der Reserve". Retrieved 28 January 2024.
^ ab"Verteidigungshaushalt 2024" (in German). Bundesministerium der Verteidigung. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
^"Deutschland meldet Militärausgaben in Höhe des Nato-Ziels" (in German). zeit.de. 14 February 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
^ ab"TIV of arms imports/exports data for India, 2014-2022". Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 26 January 2024.
^ abTian, Nan; Fleurant, Aude; Kuimova, Alexandra; Wezeman, Pieter D.; Wezeman, Siemon T. (24 April 2023). "Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2022" (PDF). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
^"Germany may increase troop numbers to 203,000 by 2025 – DW – 26.11.2018". DW.COM. Archived from the original on 3 January 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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