

While watching Naruto, I had this same question,

[How were there 80,000 ninjas in the Shinobi World War in
Naruto?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4108/how-were-
there-80-000-ninjas-in-the-shinobi-world-war-in-naruto)

And one of the conclusions I came up with was also the conclusion of the
accepted answer:

> As you can see, the village is quite large. I can estimate a population of
> over 100,000 easily. Since many of them are shinobi, I don't think it's
> exaggerated to think that there are at least 12,000 shinobi there (probably
> more).

(I think the wikia stated somewhere that it has around 80,000 persons, so I
thought may be the thousands of ninjas actually came from there)

But that doesnt explain very well why was Tsunade always short of ninjas for
the missions. How is this explained? Is there an elite of ninjas that can only
be chosen for missions, are the rest of ninjas from the land of fire in the
4th shinobi war actually coming from other villages in the land of fire or
what?

If there are thousands of ninjas in Konoha, why was Tsunade always short of
ninjas for the missions in the anime?


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If there are thousands of ninjas in Konoha, why was Tsunade always short of ninjas for the missions in the anime?


I'm not exactly sure but I think that some of the missions that Tsunade
assigns are like B, A or S rank missions, and most of the ninja aren't very
competent, furthermore, about 75% of the Village Hidden In The Leaves are
civilians. Another possibility is that most of the teams are out on other
missions.


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There are several points to answering your question.

  * There is a special division of Ninja called Black Ops, which is used for keeping village safe by reconnaissance, guarding the village, and hunting the rogue ninja, in the great ninja war, all the great nations were allied, so there was less need for these ninjas to do that, and some of them participated in the war.
  * Like Black Ops there are several more divisions like Intelligence division and Interrogation Divisions and more, which usually work on their respective missions, and not usual missions which we see in the series.
  * Missions are assigned a rank based on the level of difficulty, so if a mission is S rank, it can't be assigned to a Genin, and if a mission is D rank, there's no point assigning it to a Jonin.
  * And there is also a part, when Tsunadae usually says this, village is trouble, like when she was appointed the Hokage, Hidden Leaf Village was recovering from Orochimaru's attack where several ninja had been killed, in most of the Shippuden several Ninja were assigned to safeguard Naruto and in the Pain Arc, village was to rebuilt, so effort was to be distributed there as well.

There were 80,000 soldiers in the Fourth Great Ninja War. By soldiers I mean
there were Samurai as well not only Shinobi, of all ranks and divisions.
Following were the key villages who participated in the war, and any of the
small villages which were allied to any of these villages:

  * Hidden Leaf Village
  * Hidden Mist Village
  * Hidden Sand Village
  * Hidden Stone Village
  * Hidden Cloud Village
  * Land of Iron


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