Morocco and Portugal are close to evenly matched, 52–48 on the Relative Advantage Index.
Morocco leads on active personnel (88% of the combined total, 196.0k) and military spending (52% of the combined total, $6.3bn), which Portugal offsets elsewhere.
1 factor — nuclear warheads — could not be scored because the figure is unpublished for at least one side. Those factors are excluded and the remaining weights renormalised, never substituted.
| Factor | Morocco | Share | Portugal | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Military spending SIPRI Milex | $6.3bn | 52%48% | $5.9bn | 33% |
Economic size (GDP) World Bank WDI | $161bn | 34%66% | $313bn | 27% |
Active personnel COW NMC | 196.0k | 88%12% | 27.0k | 20% |
Logistics & power projection OurAirports | 31 | 39%61% | 49 | 20% |
Shares are each side's portion of the combined total for that factor. Weights are renormalised across the factors both sides publish — see the methodology. Data read 2026-08-04.
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