Finland remains stable as world´s 59th military power

Finland has remained stable as the 59th powerful military in the world in 2022 compared to the position last year, according to the Global Firepower (GFP) Index released on 22 January 2022.

Among three neighbours of Finland with land and maritime borders, Russia ranked second, Sweden 25th and Norway 33rd country in the index.

United States topped in the index followed by Russia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, France, United Kingdom, Pakistan and Brazil among the top ten countries respectively in the 2022 list.

Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, Australia, Germany, Israel, Spain and Saudi Arabia ranked 11 to 20 respectively in the list made for 2022.

Bhutan was at the bottom in the list of 140 countries followed by Kosovo, Somalia, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The GFP ranking is based on each nation’s potential war-making capability across land, sea, and air fought by conventional means. The results incorporate values related to manpower, equipment, natural resources, finances, and geography represented by more than 50 individual factors used in formulating the finalized GFP ranks - which provide a glimpse into an increasingly volatile global landscape where war seems all but inevitability.

The GFP assessment incorporates values related to resources, finances and geography with about 55 different factors – strength of active military personnel, paramilitary, reserve force, combat tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery, towed artillery, rocket projectors, naval assets including aircraft carriers, submarines, frigates, destroyers, corvettes, patrol vessels, mine warfare, aircraft strength including fighters, total helicopter strength, transport planes, training aircraft, etc.

The GFP also takes into consideration oil production, oil consumption, proven oil reserve, labour force, merchant marine strength, major seaports, roadway coverage, railway coverage, usable airports, defence budget, external debt, reserve of foreign exchanges, purchasing power parity, geographical considerations including shared borders and coastline coverage, among others.

Since 2006 Global Firepower has provided an analytical display of data concerning military powers.