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| MOTSWANA -BATSWANA MILITARY STATS: |
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Armed forces growth
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125 |
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[14th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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9,000 |
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[113rd of 166]
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Arms imports > constant 1990 US$
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9,000,000 constant 1990 US$
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[75th of 100]
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Branches
Botswana Defense Force: Ground Forces, Air Wing |
Conscription
No conscription (FWCC). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$10,000,000.00 |
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[72nd of 85]
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expenditure > % of central government expenditure
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10.01 %
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[24th of 88]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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2.48 %
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[29th of 145]
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Expenditures
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3.3 % of GDP |
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[20th of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$338,500,000.00 |
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[25th of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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464,278 |
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[133rd of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males
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487,853 |
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[143rd of 210]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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381,056 |
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[144th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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18 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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23,007 |
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[142nd of 226]
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personnel
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11,000
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[127th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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1.79 %
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[41st of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 is the apparent age of voluntary military service; the official qualifications for determining minimum age are unknown |
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US military exports
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$1,534.00 thousand |
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[35th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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178,000 |
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[103rd of 137]
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SOURCES: 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; World Development Indicators database; 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.; 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:
Botswana, Republic of Botswana
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