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Africa > Algeria > Military

ALGERIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 10,000 [31st of 49]
Armed forces growth -27 [98th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 124,000 [35th of 166]
Army personnel 105,000 [23rd of 49]
Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC).
Conventional arms imports $282,000,000.00 [19th of 85]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $1,870,000,000.00 [37th of 170]
Expenditures > Percent of GDP 3.3 % [41st of 171]
Iraqi insurgency > Foreign fighter nationality distribution > Sorted alphabeticallyality 8 [8th of 25]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 9,243,880 [32nd of 175]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 5,646,420 [32nd of 174]
Manpower > Military age 19 [32nd of 129]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 412,545 [22nd of 128]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 374,639 [24th of 157]
Navy personnel 7,000 [32nd of 49]
personnel 319,000 ... [20th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 2.38 % ... [27th of 168]
Service age and obligation
19-30 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (6 months basic training, 12 months civil projects) (2006)
US military exports $458.00 thousand [63rd of 109]
Weapon holdings 3,774,000 [25th of 137]

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SOURCES: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy; 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; 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.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Iraqi insurgency ; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; World Development Indicators database; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Al Jumhuriyah al Jaza'iriyah ad Dimuqratiyah ash Sha'biyah, Al Jaza'ir, algeria b

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