MilitaryCompare / Sweden vs Vietnam
Sweden vs Vietnam
Sweden ranks #23 and Vietnam ranks #24 in the 2026 Military Atlas Index. Sweden spends $16.5B on defense with 15K active personnel; Vietnam spends $10.5B with 450K.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| #23 | Global Rank | #24 |
| $16.5B | Defense Budget | $10.5B |
| 2.5% | Budget % of GDP | 2.2% |
| $669B | GDP | $515B |
| 10.60M | Population | 101.60M |
| Personnel | ||
| 15K | Active Personnel | 450K |
| 22K | Reserve Personnel | 5.00M |
| 0 | Paramilitary | 40K |
| Air | ||
| 257 | Military Aircraft | — |
| 73 | Combat Aircraft | — |
| 73 | Fighter Jets | — |
| 0 | 5th Gen Fighters | — |
| 0 | Bombers | — |
| 53 | Helicopters | — |
| 0 | Attack Helicopters | — |
| 71 | Military Drones (UAV) | — |
| Land | ||
| 111 | Main Battle Tanks | 1,769 |
| 224 | Infantry Fighting Vehicles | 300 |
| 734 | Armoured Personnel Carriers | 1,380 |
| 30 | Artillery Systems | 2,950 |
| Naval | ||
| 5 | Submarines | 6 |
| 0 | Nuclear Submarines | 0 |
| 0 | Aircraft Carriers | 0 |
| 0 | Helicopter / Amphibious Carriers | 0 |
| Strategic | ||
| 0 | Nuclear Warheads | 0 |
Vietnam leads in 8 of the 10 measured categories, Sweden in 2. Numbers alone do not decide a war: training, logistics, geography, alliances and nuclear deterrence matter too. A dash means the source publishes no figure.
Sources: CSIS Missile Threat, Federation of American Scientists, IISS Military Balance, Military Atlas Index, SIPRI, Wikipedia, Wikipedia / FlightGlobal, World Bank.