Ukraine ranked 20th in the annual Global Firepower (GFP) military power ranking for 2025 among 145 countries, while in the 2024 ranking it ranked 18th, according to the resource’s data.
According to Ukraine’s GFP data, its PowerIndex (PwrIndx) in the 2025 ranking is 0.3755 (in the GFP methodology, a lower value means a higher assessment of potential).
The GFP ranking is calculated based on more than 60 factors, including the structure and size of the forces, the availability of equipment, financial parameters, logistics, and geographical characteristics.
Global Firepower is an online project that was officially launched in 2005 and publishes annual comparative reviews of countries’ military capabilities; however, the composition of factors and the assessment formula change from year to year, which means that direct comparisons between different years may be limited in their accuracy. The ranking is widely cited in the media as a benchmark for comparing “conventional” capabilities, but it is not an official assessment by government agencies and is based on publicly available statistics and assumptions about a number of parameters.
The top 20 in the GFP-2025 ranking include: the United States, Russia, China, India, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, Pakistan, Indonesia, Germany, Israel, Iran, Spain, Australia, Egypt, and Ukraine.
