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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]
Branches
National Popular Army (ANP; includes Land Forces), Algerian National Navy (MRA), Air Force (QJJ), Territorial Air Defense Force
Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC).
Conventional arms imports $282,000,000.00 [19th of 85]
expenditure > % of GDP 2.8 % Time series [22nd of 145]
Expenditures 3.3 % of GDP Time series [21st of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $2,480,000,000.00 Time series [13th of 111]
Manpower > Availability > Females 9,590,978 Time series [29th of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 9,243,880 [32nd of 175]
Manpower > Military age 19 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 374,365 Time series [30th of 226]
Navy personnel 7,000 [32nd of 49]
personnel 319,000 Time series [20th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 2.38 % Time series [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)
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; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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; 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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