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Air force personnel
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4,000 |
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[37th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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18 |
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[53rd of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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32,000 |
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[81st of 166]
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Army personnel
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25,000 |
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[38th of 49]
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Branches
Bolivian Armed Forces: Bolivian Army (Ejercito Boliviano), Bolivian Navy (Armada Boliviana; includes marines), Bolivian Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Boliviana, FAB) |
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI and NISBCO). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$1,000,000.00 |
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[83rd of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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1.89 %
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[44th of 145]
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Expenditures
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1.9 % of GDP |
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[43rd of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$132,200,000.00 |
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[42nd of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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2,366,828 |
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[74th of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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2,118,910 |
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[84th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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19 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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107,051 |
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[74th of 226]
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Navy personnel
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4,500 |
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[36th of 49]
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personnel
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70,000
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[65th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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1.68 %
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[46th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age for 12-month compulsory military service; when annual number of volunteers falls short of goal, compulsory recruitment is effected, including conscription of boys as young as 14; 15-19 years of age for voluntary premilitary service, provides exemption from further military service |
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US military exports
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$9,175.00 thousand |
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[22nd of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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209,000 |
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[100th 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; 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:
Bolivia, Republic of Bolivia, Republica de Bolivia
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