MPR Country Profile

Andorra Military Power Ranking 2026

Andorra ranks 194th in the 2026 Military Power Rankings. This small, landlocked principality in the Pyrenees between France and Spain does not maintain a standing military force.

Its defense is guaranteed by long-standing arrangements with France and Spain, while internal security responsibilities fall to the Andorran Police Corps and the historical Sometent tradition.

France Defense Spain Defense Neutrality Police Security Pyrenees

MPR Rank194th

MPR Score121

MPR Index0.00511.0000 is perfect

Reverse MPR Index0.94280.0000 is perfect

Z Score-0.866Standard deviations from the mean

Doctrine ProfileFrance, Spain, police

MPR Overview

Andorra ranks 194th in the 2026 Military Power Rankings. This small, landlocked principality in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain does not maintain a standing military force.

Instead, its defense is guaranteed by the 1993 tripartite treaty with France and Spain. Andorra's security responsibilities fall to the Andorran Police Corps and the historical Sometent citizen-militia tradition; neither constitutes a standing field army.

The country's neutral status, peaceful geography, and reliance on external defense partnerships have enabled it to pursue a national security policy centered on law enforcement, internal stability, and non-alignment in international military affairs.

Strategic Geography Schematic

Core MPR Strengths

MPR assesses the police system as comparatively well resourced for the principality’s size, with professional training and European coordination supporting domestic security.

MPR Doctrine and Strategy

Andorra's doctrine is based on non-militarization, internal policing, civil protection, ceremonial security, neutrality, and reliance on France and Spain for external defense.

The country does not maintain an army, navy, air force, missile force, armored units, air-defense network, or strategic military infrastructure.

Operational priorities include law enforcement, border control, financial-crime enforcement, VIP protection, civil protection, emergency response, and diplomatic coordination with France and Spain.

Force Profile

Andorra's security structure is civilian and law-enforcement based. It is designed for public order, border management, civil protection, and emergency response rather than military operations.

Ground Forces

Andorra does not maintain a formal military. Internal security and law enforcement are the responsibility of the Police Corps of Andorra, while external defense is provided through France and Spain.

The country has no tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, mechanized formations, or expeditionary ground capability.

Air Power

Andorra does not maintain an air force and relies on France and Spain to secure its airspace.

Naval Forces

As a landlocked country, Andorra does not have any naval forces or maritime infrastructure.

2025 MPR assessment — Merchant Marine Fleet: None.

2025 MPR assessment — Naval Replenishment Capability: Not applicable.

Missile Systems

Andorra does not possess any missile capabilities and relies on its defense partners for external security.

Detailed Missile Inventory

Nuclear and Strategic Deterrence

Andorra has no strategic deterrent of its own. Its security against external threats depends on the protection of France and Spain, while domestic institutions focus on policing and civil protection.

Cyber, Space, ISR, and Electronic Warfare

Andorra has no military cyber, space, ISR, or electronic-warfare capability. Internal security is handled by national police and civilian agencies, with intelligence sharing through European and international law enforcement channels.

Partnerships and Alliances

Andorra's external-security framework is the 1993 tripartite treaty of good neighbourliness, friendship, and cooperation with France and Spain. Both countries provide external defense and protection, while Andorra manages its internal security and law enforcement.

Combat History

Andorra’s security history centres on local policing, citizen-militia traditions, and agreements with its neighbours. It does not maintain a professional field army or an expeditionary force.

The Sometent and local security

Before professional policing, the Sometent was a communal citizen militia led by local officers. Andorran Police history describes exceptional mobilisation of men under sixty when local manpower was insufficient. This historical security role is distinct from a modern standing combat formation.

Professional policing from 1931

The first Police Corps regulation, dated 15 May 1931, established a chief and five officers as hydroelectric construction and new roads transformed the principality. Modern police work includes border enforcement, public order, organised and financial crime, and international coordination, with tourism and diplomatic events adding protection requirements.

The 1993 constitutional and treaty framework

The medieval paréage of 1278 helped establish the principality’s constitutional tradition. The 1993 tripartite treaty supports Andorra’s sovereignty and territorial integrity alongside the modern constitution. French and Spanish relationships remain central to its external-security model.

Civil protection and the limits of military participation

Domestic institutions concentrate on law enforcement, emergency response, and civil protection. Andorra has no national military contingents for expeditionary campaigns or conventional peacekeeping deployments. MPR therefore treats its security experience as police-led and diplomatic rather than a source of independent combat power.

Geography, Economy, and Infrastructure

Andorra is a landlocked mountain state with rugged terrain, narrow valleys, snowy winters, and warm dry summers. Its geography provides isolation but also limits infrastructure scale.

Natural resources include hydropower, timber, iron ore, and tourism value. MPR records no proven oil or natural-gas reserves. Andorra relies on imported fuel and electricity from France and Spain, alongside domestic electricity generation.

National Metrics

Security-spending estimates cover policing and civil protection where stated. They are distinct from conventional military expenditure; PPP output and all-sector external debt retain their separate definitions.

2025 MPR spending assessment: flat, with no standing military and resources directed toward policing, civil protection, and ceremonial functions.

Military Infrastructure and Readiness

Andorra has no military districts, no combat installations, and no military airfields. Ceremonial guard posts and police facilities in Andorra la Vella support internal order and symbolic state functions.

Readiness is strongest in policing, civil protection, border management, and cooperation with France and Spain rather than military mobilization.

Defense Industry

Andorra has no domestic defense production base and no wartime industrial surge capacity.

Domestic generation and imported energy

FEDA reported that domestic generation supplied almost 24% of electricity consumed in 2024. Hydropower was the largest domestic source, so reliance on neighbouring grids does not mean that all electricity is imported.

2025 MPR energy assessment: no domestic oil production and no identified strategic petroleum reserve.

2025 MPR assessment — Foreign Military Personnel Presence: None.

Why Andorra Ranks 194th

Andorra's 194th-place ranking reflects its role as a non-militarized, externally protected microstate with a stable internal policing model.

Its defense model is built on diplomatic neutrality, geographic advantage, and trusted protection from France and Spain, giving it stability but no independent military capability.

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