Taiwan
Global Firepower rank #22 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.3927 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts Taiwan's 2025 military spending at $18.2 billion, 2.1% of GDP and up 14% on the year in real terms, ranking #22 in the world. It has no nuclear weapons of its own.
People and money
- Military spending
- $18.2B
- Active personnel
- 230K
- Reserves
- 1.66M
- Paramilitary
- 55K
Land forces
- Tanks
- 1,090
- Armored vehicles
- 24K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 488
- Towed artillery
- 1,360
- Rocket artillery
- 223
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 720
- Fighters
- 258
- Attack aircraft
- 0
- Helicopters
- 239
- Attack helicopters
- 91
- Tankers
- 0
- Transports
- 19
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 91
- Aircraft carriers
- 0
- Helicopter carriers
- 0
- Submarines
- 4
- Destroyers
- 4
- Frigates
- 21
- Corvettes
- 7
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 0
- Deployed warheads
- 0
Compare Taiwan with
Australia 路 Brazil 路 China 路 Egypt 路 France 路 Germany 路 India 路 Indonesia 路 Iran 路 Israel 路 Italy 路 Japan 路 North Korea 路 Pakistan 路 Poland 路 Russia 路 Saudi Arabia 路 South Korea 路 Spain 路 Turkey 路 Ukraine 路 United Kingdom 路 United States
Last updated 2026-10-27. Sources: Global Firepower 2026 (personnel, equipment counts, powerindex), SIPRI Military Expenditure 2025 (Apr 2026) (military spending, share of gdp), SIPRI Yearbook 2026: World Nuclear Forces (nuclear warheads (jan 2026)).