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South America > Ecuador > Military

ECUADORIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth 35 [41st of 132]
Armed forces personnel 58,000 [62nd of 166]
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Signature 24 SEP 1996
Conscription
Conscription exists.
Conventional arms imports $22,000,000.00 [57th of 85]
expenditure > % of central government expenditure 20.1 % ... [9th of 88]
expenditure > % of GDP 2.41 % ... [31st of 145]
expenditure > current LCU 881000000 ...
Expenditures > Dollar figure $720,000,000.00 [59th of 170]
Expenditures > Percent of GDP 2.8 % [55th of 171]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 3,555,070 [62nd of 175]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 2,395,180 [57th of 174]
Manpower > Military age 20 [13th of 129]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 137,433 [55th of 128]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 133,922 [56th of 157]
personnel 47,270 ... [75th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.74 % ... [98th of 168]
Service age and obligation
20 years of age for conscript military service; 12-month service obligation (2004)
US military exports $7,988.00 thousand [24th of 109]
Weapon holdings 542,000 [83rd of 137]

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SOURCES: calculated on the basis of data on armed forces from IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Wikipedia: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997. Data collected from the nations concerned, unless otherwise indicated. Acronyms: Amnesty International (AI); European Council of Conscripts Organizations (ECCO); Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC); International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHFHR); National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO); Service, Peace and Justice in Latin America (SERPAJ); War Resisters International (WRI); World Council of Churches (WCC); SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). 2005. SIPRI Arms Transfers. Database. February. Stockholm.; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Ecuador, Republic of Ecuador, Republica del Ecuador

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