This is a list of current defence ministers of the 193 United Nations member states, Holy See (Vatican City) and the State of Palestine.

Defence ministers of sovereign countries with limited recognition are included in a separate table.

States recognised by the United Nations

State	List	Defence minister	Political affiliation	Assumed office
Afghanistan	List	Mullah Yaqoob (acting)	Taliban	7 September 2021
Albania	List	Niko Peleshi	Socialist Party of Albania	31 December 2020
Algeria		Abdelmadjid Tebboune (also President)	National Liberation Front	19 December 2019
Andorra		—
Angola		João Ernesto dos Santos	Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola	2020
Antigua and Barbuda		Gaston Browne[1] (also Prime Minister)	Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party
Argentina	List	Luis Petri	La Libertad Avanza	10 December 2023
Armenia	List	Suren Papikyan	Civil Contract	15 November 2021
Australia	List	Richard Marles	Labor Party of Australia	1 June 2022
Austria	List	Klaudia Tanner	Austrian People's Party	7 January 2020
Azerbaijan	List	Colonel General Zakir Hasanov	New Azerbaijan Party	22 October 2013
Bahamas		—
Bahrain		Major-General Abdullah bin Hassan Al-Nuaimi		4 December 2018
Bangladesh		Sheikh Hasina	Bangladesh Awami League	6 January 2009
Barbados		Mia Mottley	Barbados Labour Party	26 May 2018
Belarus	List	Viktor Khrenin	Independent	20 January 2020
Belgium	List	Ludivine Dedonder	Socialist Party	1 October 2020
Belize		Florencio Marin, Jr.	United Democratic Party	13 November 2020
Benin		Alain Nouatin		25 May 2021
Bhutan		—
Bolivia		Edmundo Novillo	Movimiento al Socialismo	9 November 2020
Bosnia and Herzegovina	List	Zukan Helez	Social Democratic Party	25 January 2023
Botswana	List	Shaw Kgathi	Botswana Democratic Party	31 October 2014
Brazil	List	José Múcio	PTB	1 January 2023
Brunei		Hassanal Bolkiah (also Sultan)		7 September 1986
Bulgaria	List	Dragomir Zakov	Independent	1 March 2022
Burkina Faso		Kassoum Coulibaly		30 September 2022
Burundi		Emmanuel Ntahomvukiye		25 May 2015
Cambodia	List	General Tea Seiha	Cambodian People's Party	22 August 2023
Cameroon		Joseph Beti Assomo	Cameroon People's Democratic Movement	2 October 2015
Canada	List	Bill Blair	Liberal Party of Canada	26 July 2023
Cape Verde		Luís Filipe Tavares		22 April 2016
Central African Republic		General Thomas Theophile Tchimangoa
Chad		Daoud Tchari
Chile	List	Maya Fernández	Socialist Party of Chile	11 March 2022
China	List	General Li Shangfu	Chinese Communist Party	12 March 2023
Colombia	List	Iván Velásquez Gómez	Independent	7 August 2022
Comoros		—
Republic of the Congo		Charles Mondjo		25 September 2012
Democratic Republic of the Congo		Alexandre Luba Ntambo		28 April 2012
Costa Rica[nb 1]		Michael Soto Rojas		9 May 2018
Ivory Coast		Patrick Achi (acting)		8 March 2021
Croatia	List	Mario Banožić	Croatian Democratic Union	23 July 2020
Cuba	List	Corps General Álvaro López Miera		15 April 2021
Cyprus	List	Demetris Eliades		14 July 2011
Czechia	List	Jana Černochová	Civic Democratic Party	17 December 2021
Denmark	List	Jakob Ellemann-Jensen	Venstre	15 December 2022
Djibouti		Hassan Darar Houffaneh
Dominica		—
Dominican Republic		Luciano Díaz Morfa		16 August 2020
East Timor	List	Pedro Klamar Fuik [de]	Independent	1 July 2023
Ecuador		Luis Hernández Peñaherrera		18 October 2021
Egypt	List	Lieutenant General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki	Independent	14 June 2018
El Salvador	List	René Merino Monroy		1 June 2019
Equatorial Guinea		Victoriano Bibang Nsue Okomo
Eritrea		Filipos Woldeyohannes		2014
Estonia	List	Hanno Pevkur	Estonian Reform Party	18 July 2022
Ethiopia		Abraham Belay		6 October 2021
Fiji		Pio Tikoduadua	NFP	24 December 2022
Finland	List	Antti Häkkänen	National Coalition Party	20 June 2023
France	List	Sébastien Lecornu	La République En Marche!	20 May 2022
Gabon		Ernest Mpouho Epigat
Gambia		Sheikh Omar Faye	Independent	22 August 2019
Georgia	List	Juansher Burchuladze	Georgian Dream	22 February 2021
Germany	List	Boris Pistorius	Social Democratic Party of Germany	19 January 2023
Ghana	List	Dominic Nitiwul	New Patriotic Party	February 2012
Greece	List	Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos		9 July 2019
Grenada		Dickon Mitchell (also Prime Minister)	National Democratic Congress	24 June 2022
Guatemala	List	Henry Reyes Chigua		21 December 2021
Guinea		Aboubacar Sidiki Camara		20 August 2022
Guinea-Bissau		Sandji Fati
Guyana		—[clarification needed]
Haiti		Jean Rodolphe Joazile
Holy See
Honduras		Samuel Reyes [es]	National Party	29 January 2018
Hungary	List	Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky	Independent	24 May 2022
Iceland[nb 2]	List	Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir	Independce	28 November 2021
India	List	Rajnath Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	31 May 2019
Indonesia	List	Lieutenant General Prabowo Subianto	Gerindra	23 October 2019
Iran	List	Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani		25 August 2021
Iraq		Juma Inad		6 May 2020
Ireland	List	Micheál Martin	Fine Gael	27 June 2020
Israel	List	Yoav Gallant	Likud	29 December 2022
Italy	List	Guido Crosetto	Brothers of Italy	22 October 2022
Jamaica		—
Japan	List	Yasukazu Hamada	Liberal Democratic Party	10 August 2022
Jordan		Bisher Al-Khasawneh[2]		12 October 2020
Kazakhstan	List	Ruslan Jaqsylyqov		19 January 2022
Kenya		Eugene Wamalwa		29 September 2021
Kiribati		—
North Korea	List	General Kang Sun-nam	Workers' Party of Korea	1 January 2023
South Korea	List	Lee Jong-sup		10 May 2022
Kuwait	List	Hamad Jaber Al Sabah		15 December 2020
Kyrgyzstan	List	Lieutenant General Baktybek Bekbolotov		6 September 2021
Laos		Sengnouan Xayalath
Latvia	List	Ināra Mūrniece	National Alliance	14 December 2022
Lebanon	List	Maurice Sleem	Independent	10 September 2021
Lesotho		Prince Maliehe	All Basotho Convention	21 May 2020
Liberia		Major General Daniel Ziankahn		January 2018
Libya	List	Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh (also Prime Minister)	Independent	15 March 2021
Liechtenstein		—
Lithuania	List	Arvydas Anušauskas	Homeland Union	11 December 2020
Luxembourg	List	François Bausch	The Greens	5 December 2018
Madagascar		General Dominique Jean Oliver Rakotozafy
Malawi		Lazarus Chakwera (also President)	Malawi Congress Party	28 June 2020
Malaysia	List	Mohamed Khaled Nordin	Barisan Nasional (United Malays National Organisation)	12 December 2023
Maldives		Mariya Ahmed Didi	Maldivian Democratic Party	17 November 2018
Mali		Sadio Camara		11 June 2021
Malta		Byron Camilleri		15 January 2020
Marshall Islands		—
Mauritania		Hanena Ould Sidi		7 August 2019
Mauritius		Pravind Jugnauth (also Prime Minister)	Militant Socialist Movement
Mexico	List	Luis Cresencio Sandoval		1 December 2018
Micronesia		—
Moldova	List	Anatolie Nosatîi		6 August 2021
Monaco		—
Mongolia	List	Brigadier General Gürsediin Saikhanbayar	Mongolian People's Party	8 July 2020
Montenegro		Raško Konjević	Social Democratic Party of Montenegro	28 April 2022
Morocco		Abdellatif Loudiyi		2 December 2010
Mozambique		Jaime Bessa Neto		22 January 2020
Myanmar		Admiral Tin Aung San		3 August 2023[3]
Namibia	List	Frans Kapofi	SWAPO	22 April 2021
Nauru		—
Nepal	List	Purna Bahadur Khadka	Nepali Congress	31 March 2023
Netherlands	List	Kajsa Ollongren	Democrats 66	10 January 2022
New Zealand		Judith Collins	National Party of New Zealand	27 November 2023
Nicaragua		Rosa Adelina Barahona Castro		19 August 2019
Niger		Alkassoum Indatou	PNDS-Tarayya	3 April 2021
Nigeria	List	Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi		21 August 2019
North Macedonia	List	Slavjanka Petrovska		16 January 2022
Norway	List	Bjørn Arild Gram	Centre Party (Norway)	14 October 2021
Oman		Shihab bin Tariq bin Taimur al Said		19 August 2020
Pakistan	List	Khawaja Muhammad Asif	Pakistan Muslim League (N)	19 April 2022
Palau		—
Palestine[4]
Panama		—
Papua New Guinea		Solan Mirisim[5]		12 December 2020
Paraguay		Bernardino Soto		15 August 2018
Peru	List	Jorge Chávez	Independent	21 December 2022
Philippines	List	Gilbert Teodoro	People's Reform Party	5 June 2023
Poland	List	Mariusz Błaszczak	Law and Justice	9 January 2018
Portugal	List	Helena Carreiras		31 March 2022
Qatar		Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah		27 January 2016
Romania	List	Angel Tîlvăr	Social Democratic Party	30 October 2022
Russia	List	General of the Army Sergey Shoygu	United Russia	6 November 2012
Rwanda		General Albert Murasira	Rwandan Patriotic Front	18 October 2018
Saint Kitts and Nevis		—
Saint Lucia		Hermangild Francis
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines		—
San Marino		—
São Tomé and Príncipe		Óscar Sousa	3 December 2018
Saudi Arabia	List	Khalid Bin Salman		27 September 2022
Senegal		Augustin Tine [fr]
Serbia	List	Nebojša Stefanović	Serbian Progressive Party	28 October 2020
Seychelles		Wavel Ramkalawan (also President)	Linyon Demokratik Seselwa	26 October 2020
Sierra Leone		Major Alfred Paolo Conteh	All People's Congress	26 October 2007
Singapore	List	Dr. Ng Eng Hen	People's Action Party	21 May 2011
Slovakia		Jaroslav Naď	Ordinary People	21 March 2020
Slovenia		Marjan Šarec	Freedom Movement	1 June 2022
Solomon Islands		Christopher Laore	Independent	22 October 2012
Somalia	List	Abdikadir Hashi Dini
South Africa	List	Thandi Modise[6]	African National Congress	5 August 2021
South Sudan		Kuol Manyang Juuk[clarification needed]	Sudan People's Liberation Movement-Juba
Spain	List	Margarita Robles	Independent	7 June 2018
Sri Lanka	List	Ranil Wickremesinghe (also President)	United National Party	15 July 2022
Sudan		Yassin Ibrahim Yassin		2 June 2020
Suriname		Krishna Mathoera	Progressive Reform Party	16 July 2020
Swaziland		—
Sweden	List	Pål Jonson	Moderate Party	18 October 2022
Switzerland	List	Viola Amherd	Christian Democratic People's Party	1 January 2019
Syria	List	Lieutenant general Ali Mahmoud Abbas	Ba'ath Party	28 April 2022
Tajikistan	List	Colonel General Sherali Mirzo		20 November 2013
Tanzania		Innocent Bashungwa	Chama Cha Mapinduzi	3 October 2022
Thailand	List	Sutin Klungsang	Pheu Thai Party	1 September 2023
Togo		Essozimna Marguerite Gnakade	Union for the Republic	1 October 2020
Trinidad and Tobago		—[clarification needed]
Tunisia	List	Imed Memmich	Independent	11 October 2021
Turkey	List	General Yaşar Güler	Independent	4 June 2023
Turkmenistan	List	Major General Begench Gundogdyev		14 June 2018
Tuvalu		—
Uganda		Adolf Mwesige		6 June 2016
Ukraine	List	Rustem Umierov	Holos	6 September 2023
United Arab Emirates		Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum		9 December 1971
United Kingdom	List	Grant Shapps	Conservative Party	31 August 2023
United States	List	Lloyd Austin	Independent	22 January 2021
Uruguay		Javier García Duchini	National Party	1 March 2020
Uzbekistan	List	Major General Bakhodir Kurbanov		4 September 2017
Vanuatu		—
Venezuela		Gen. Vladimir Padrino López	United Socialist Party of Venezuela	24 October 2014
Vietnam	List	General Phan Văn Giang		8 April 2021
Yemen		Mohsen Mohammed Al-Daeri		28 July 2022
Zambia		Davies Chama	Patriotic Front
Zimbabwe		Oppah Muchinguri	Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front	7 September 2018

Notes

States with limited recognition, non-UN member states

State	List	Defence minister	Party	Assumed office
Abkhazia (Republic of Abkhazia)		Vladimir Anua
Kosovo (Republic of Kosovo)		Ejup Maqedonci		22 March 2021
Northern Cyprus (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)		—
Sahrawi Republic (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)		Mohamed Lamine El Bouhali
Somaliland (Republic of Somaliland)		Ahmed Haji Abdi Adami[clarification needed]
South Ossetia (Republic of South Ossetia–the State of Alania)		Valery Yakhnovets
Taiwan (Republic of China)	List	Chiu Kuo-cheng	Independent	23 February 2021
Transnistria (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic)		Oleg Obruchlov[clarification needed]