|
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Air force personnel
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1,500 |
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[43rd of 49]
|
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Armed forces growth
|
293 |
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[5th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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11,000 |
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[105th of 166]
|
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Army personnel
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8,500 |
|
[45th of 49]
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Branches
Bahrain Defense Forces (BDF): Ground Force (includes Air Defense), Naval Force, Air Force, National Guard |
Conscription
No conscription. |
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Conventional arms imports
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$10,000,000.00 |
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[73rd of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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4.34 %
|
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[12th of 145]
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Expenditures
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4.5 % of GDP |
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[13th of 87]
|
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$628,900,000.00 |
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[21st of 111]
|
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
|
400 |
|
[22nd of 30]
|
|
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
|
222,242 |
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[154th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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15 years of age |
|
|
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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6,543 |
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[162nd of 226]
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Navy personnel
|
1,000 |
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[44th of 49]
|
|
personnel
|
21,000
|
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[101st of 170]
|
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personnel > % of total labor force
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6.23 %
|
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[6th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
17 years of age for voluntary military service; 15 years of age for NCOs, technicians, and cadets; no conscription |
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US military exports
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$82,851.00 thousand |
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[10th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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580,000 |
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[80th 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; 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:
Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain, Mamlakat al Bahrayn, Al Bahrayn
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