The Global Firepower 2024 Military Strength Ranking. I never heard of the Global Firepower Military Strength Ranking before. They say:
"The finalized Global Firepower ranking below utilizes over 60 individual factors to determine a given nation's PowerIndex ('PwrIndx') score with categories ranging from quantity of military units and financial standing to logistical capabilities and geography."
"Our unique, in-house formula allows for smaller, more technologically-advanced, nations to compete with larger, lesser-developed powers and special modifiers, in the form of bonuses and penalties, are applied to further refine the list which is compiled annually. Color arrows (Green, Gray, and Red) indicate the year-over-year trend comparison (Up, Stable, Down)."
"For the 2024 GFP review, a total of 145 world powers are considered."
"Note: A perfect PwrIndx score is 0.0000 which is realistically unattainable in the scope of the current GFP formula; as such, the smaller the PwrIndx value, the more 'powerful' a nation's conventional fighting capability is."
Apparently with these "PwrIndx" scores, lower is better for some reason. The United States has a score of 0.0699, while Bhutan has 6.3704. According to this ranking, if Moldova (4.2311) went to war against Bhutan (6.3704), Moldova would win.
The first three countries are the US, Russia, and China, all nearly tied with scores near 0.07. Make of that what you will. Ukraine is number 18, above Germany.
