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South America > Bolivia > Military

BOLIVIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 4,000 [37th of 49]
    (per capita) 0.045 per 100 population [28th of 49]
Armed forces growth 18 [53rd of 132]
Armed forces personnel 32,000 [81st of 166]
    (per capita) 3.61255 per 1,000 people [77th of 166]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 9,000,000 constant 1990 US$ ... [68th of 100]
    (per capita) 0.98 constant 1990 US$ per c ... [60th of 170]
Army personnel 25,000 [38th of 49]
    (per capita) 2.82231 per 1,000 people [25th of 49]
Branches
Bolivian Armed Forces: Bolivian Army (Ejercito Boliviano), Bolivian Navy (Armada Boliviana; includes marines), Bolivian Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Boliviana, FAB) (2007)
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Ratification 04 OCT 1999
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Signature 24 SEP 1996
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI and NISBCO).
Conventional arms imports $1,000,000.00 [83rd of 85]
    (per $ GDP) 0.045 per $1,000 [80th of 85]
    (per capita) 0.113 per 1 population [84th of 85]
expenditure > % of central government expenditure 7.13 % ... [22nd of 88]
expenditure > % of GDP 1.89 % ... [44th of 145]
expenditure > current LCU 1426000000 ...
Expenditures > Dollar figure $147,000,000.00 [98th of 170]

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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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ; 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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Bolivia, Republic of Bolivia, Republica de Bolivia

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