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Asia > Afghanistan > Military

AFGHAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Arms exports > constant 1990 US$ 1,000,000 constant 1990 US$ ... [36th of 45]
    (per capita) 71.395 constant 1990 US$ per 1 ... [78th of 83]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 22,000,000 constant 1990 US$ ... [55th of 100]
    (per capita) 164.352 constant 1990 US$ per c ... [3rd of 170]
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Afghan National Army (includes Afghan Air Force) (2006)
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Ratification 24 SEP 2003
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Signature 24 SEP 2003
Conscription
In view of the present conflict it is difficult to assess whether there is a coherent policy of conscription superseding the policy of the previous regime, under which conscription existed (AI).
Expenditures > Dollar figure $525,200,000.00 [71st of 170]
    (per $ GDP) $0.91 per $10 of GDP [4th of 162]
Expenditures > Percent of GDP 1.9 % [83rd of 171]
Gulf War Coalition Forces 300 [24th of 30]
    (per capita) 0.01 per capita [26th of 30]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 7,160,600 [39th of 175]
    (per capita) 239.253 per 1,000 people [117th of 174]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 3,837,650 [44th of 174]
    (per capita) 128.225 per 1,000 people [137th of 173]
Manpower > Military age 22 [1st of 129]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 275,223 [35th of 128]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 275,362 [33rd of 157]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; 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); CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; CIA World Factbook, December 2003

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Afghanistan, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan, Afghanestan

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