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| AUSTRALIAN MILITARY STATS: |
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Air force personnel
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17,700 |
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[20th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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-28 |
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[100th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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51,000 |
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[68th of 166]
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Army personnel
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25,400 |
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[37th of 49]
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Branches
Australian Defense Force (ADF): Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, Special Operations Command |
Conscription
No conscription (FWCC). |
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Conventional arms exports
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$52,000,000.00 |
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[19th of 40]
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Conventional arms imports
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$334,000,000.00 |
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[15th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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1.78 %
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[49th of 145]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$16,650,000,000.00 |
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[3rd of 111]
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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700 |
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[16th of 30]
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Iraq Coalition casualties
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2 |
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[14th of 18]
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Iraq coalition forces > Troop strength
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900 |
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[6th of 10]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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5,037,540 |
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[52nd of 175]
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Navy personnel
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14,300 |
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[25th of 49]
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Operation Enduring Freedom > Afghanistan coalition fatalities
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1 |
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[11th of 13]
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personnel
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53,000
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[70th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.51 %
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[119th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
17 years of age for voluntary military service (with parental consent); no conscription; women allowed to serve in Army combat units in non-combat support roles |
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Weapon holdings
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1,186,000 |
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[59th 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; "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; Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count. March 19, 2006.; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Operation Enduring Freedom, icasualties.org, May 18, 2006; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Australia, Commonwealth of Australia
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