Combat Fleets of the World’s Top 60 Navies (2016)

Notes: The table only focuses on navies. It does not include references to vessels operated by coast guards; customs and border protection services; police forces and other law enforcement agencies; border guards, civil guards, revolutionary guards, and other types of paramilitary forces. Moreover, the table only includes surface warships and submarines. It does not include the various auxiliary non-combat ships owned and operated by those navies, such as auxiliary oil replenishment (AOR) ships, logistics and support ships, amphibious landing ships and landing craft, hospital ships, research and survey ships, training ships, rescue boats, diving tenders, harbour patrol craft, fireboats, tugs, and other similar types of vessels.

The “Principal Amphibious Ships” category only includes the following types of helicopter-carrying amphibious ships: Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH), Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA), Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD), Landing Platform Dock (LPD), and Landing Ship Dock (LSD). Other types of amphibious ships, such as Landing Ship Medium (LSM) or Landing Ship Tank (LST), are not included in the “Principal Amphibious Ships” category.

The “Patrol and Coastal Combatants” category includes all types of minor surface combatant vessels, with the exception of corvettes and mine warfare vessels. Included in this category are fast attack crafts, littoral combat ships, inshore and offshore patrol ships, coastal patrol ships, patrol boats, and other types of small armed combatant vessels.

Source: Table prepared using data from International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), The Military Balance 2017, pp. 27–548.