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| BANGLADESHI MILITARY STATS: |
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Air force personnel
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9,500 |
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[32nd of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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50 |
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[34th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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137,000 |
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[34th of 166]
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Arms imports > constant 1990 US$
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27,000,000 constant 1990 US$
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[51st of 100]
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Army personnel
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101,000 |
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[24th of 49]
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Branches
Bangladesh Defense Force: Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy, Bangladesh Air Force (Bangladesh Biman Bahini, BAF) |
Conscription
No conscription (AI). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$26,000,000.00 |
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[55th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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1.14 %
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[84th of 145]
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Expenditures
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1.5 % of GDP |
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[53rd of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$995,300,000.00 |
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[18th of 111]
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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2,200 |
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[13th of 30]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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38,436,900 |
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[6th of 175]
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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1,311,850 |
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[8th of 226]
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Navy personnel
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10,500 |
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[27th of 49]
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personnel
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252,000
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[24th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.39 %
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[135th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
16 years of age for voluntary military service; 17 years of age for officers (both with parental consent); conscription legally possible in emergency, but has never been implemented |
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US military exports
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$4,541.00 thousand |
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[31st of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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547,000 |
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[82nd 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; 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.; "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:
Bangladesh, People's Republic of Bangladesh
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