When it comes to manpower, no military in the world comes close to that of China. According to Global Firepower estimates, the People’s Republic has 2.19 million active military personnel.
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The United States in comparison, has significantly less – 1.4 million – but, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, when assessing the overall power of the world’s military forces, the U.S. comes out on top, ahead of Russia and China in second and third, respectively.
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The index “utilizes over 50 individual factors to determine a given nation’s PowerIndex score with categories ranging from military might and financials to logistical capability and geography.”
While a rating of 0.000 would represent the perfect score, it is considered realistically unattainable.
