Users
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bulgaria: Produced locally.
- Cambodia
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Comoros
- Congo-Brazzaville
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- East Germany: Produced locally.
- Egypt: The Misr is an Egyptian copy of the AKM, manufactured by Factory 54 of the Maadi Company for Engineering Industries in Cairo for the Egyptian Army and for export sales.
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Eritrea
- Estonia: Still in limited military/police use. Replaced by AK-74.
- Finland: Holds stocks of imported AKM clones for wartime reserve service (the Chinese Type 56 known as the RK 56 TP and the East German MPi-KM as the RK 72) along with locally designed AK derivatives (the RK 62 and the RK 95 TP).
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Hungary: There is a Hungarian copy of the AKM called 'AK-63' manufactured by FÉG. The AK-63 comes with a fixed wooden or plastic stock, but there is a version with an under-folding metal stock called AK-63D.
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel: Captured from Arab armies over the course of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Madagascar
- Mali - Armed and Security Forces of Mali
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- North Korea: Type 68 variant. The variant does not have a rate reducer.
- Oman: Some captured from Dhofari rebels.
- Pakistan: Type 56 variant.
- Peru
- People's Republic of China: Type 56 variant.
- Poland: Produced locally. Replaced in the early 1980s.
- Qatar
- Republic of Macedonia
- Romania: Produced locally.
- Russia: Still in limited military/Police use, officially replaced in most Russian military units by the AK-74. Some usage mainly urban environments due to the ability to penetrate heavy cover.
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- South Sudan
- Sierra Leone
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- Soviet Union
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden A small number of AKM's are used by the Swedish Armed Forces for familiarization training, but they are not issued to combat units.
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine still in limited use, officially replaced in most Ukrainian military units by the AK-74 and the Vepr.
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam Standard infantry rifle of the Vietnamese Army.
- Yemen
- Yugoslavia: Several variants based on the AKM built by Zastava Arms factory, most notably the M70 and M70B.
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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