Sri Lanka Armed Forces

Sri Lanka Armed Forces
Service branches	Sri Lanka Army Sri Lanka Navy Sri Lanka Air Force
Headquarters	Colombo
Leadership
Supreme Commander	President Ranil Wickremesinghe
Minister of Defence	President Ranil Wickremesinghe
Secretary of Defence	General Kamal Gunaratne (Retd.)
Chief of the Defence Staff	General Shavendra Silva
Personnel
Military age	18 years of age
Conscription	None
Available for military service	5,342,147 males, age 16-49 (2010 est.), 5,466,409 females, age 16-49 (2010 est.)
Fit for military service	4,177,432 males, age 16-49 (2010 est.), 4,574,833 females, age 16-49 (2010 est.)
Reaching military age annually	167,026 males (2010 est.), 162,587 females (2010 est.)
Active personnel	346,000 (ranked 14th)
Reserve personnel	90,000
Deployed personnel	18,000 (UN peace keeping)
Expenditure
Budget	US$ 1.45 billion (2023) [1]
Percent of GDP	1.93% (2020)
Industry
Domestic suppliers	SLEME Colombo Dockyard
Foreign suppliers	People's Republic of China  Russia  India  Pakistan[2]  Israel  United States  United Kingdom
Annual exports	India[3] Maldives Nigeria[4]
Related articles
History	Boer War World War I World War II Congo Crisis First JVP Insurrection Second JVP Insurrection Sri Lankan Civil War Eelam War I Eelam War II Eelam War III Eelam War IV
Ranks	Army Navy Air Force

The Sri Lanka Armed Forces is the overall unified military of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka encompassing the Sri Lanka Army, the Sri Lanka Navy, and the Sri Lanka Air Force; they are governed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The three services have around 346,700 active personnel; conscription has never been imposed in Sri Lanka. As of 2021 it is the 14th largest military in the world, with 1.46% of the Sri Lankan population actively serving.