According to the Global Fire Power Index 2023 which has just appeared, Tunisia ranks 9th in the military powers in Africa, and in the world.
According to the 2023 edition of the Army ranking in the world, published by the American site specializing in defense, Global Fire Power (GFP), Tunisia would come in 9th position to the most powerful armies in Africa that Egypt leads without sharing.
According to GFP, the Tunisian army would have:
100 thousand soldiers, 90 thousand, are active and 10 thousand paramilitaries
152 fighter planes
17 transport aircraft
50 training planes
118 helicopters
247 fighting tanks
16,240 armored vehicles
179 towed artillery
2 frigates
36 patrol ships
2 mine hunters
Tunisia’s defense budget, according to GFP, is around 1.3 billion dollars.
In order to establish its classification, GFP is based on a “power index” whose perfect score would be 0.0000, which is impossible in fact. Thus, the more we move away from this score the more we go back in the classification.
The GFP classification is based on 60 criteria, the number of active soldiers, naval force, the availability of fuel for military operations, the number of fighter operations, the budget devoted to defense and logistical flexibility.
GFP, which classifies 38 African countries this year, does not take into account nuclear stocks and does not penalize countries not having coastline by the lack of naval force.
