FACTOID # 6: Bolivia has 4,500 Navy personnel - which seems like quite a lot for a landlocked country.
 
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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]
Armed forces growth 18 [53rd of 132]
Armed forces personnel 32,000 [81st of 166]
Army personnel 25,000 [38th of 49]
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI and NISBCO).
Conventional arms imports $1,000,000.00 [83rd of 85]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $147,000,000.00 [98th of 170]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 2,118,910 [84th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 19 [23rd of 129]
Manpower available for military service > Males age 18-49 1,923,234 [61st of 164]
Manpower fit for military service > Females age 18-49 1,502,177 [52nd of 119]
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49 1,311,414 [58th of 161]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Females age 18-49 98,671 [41st of 91]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 101,101 [61st of 157]
Navy personnel 4,500 [36th of 49]
personnel 70,000 ... [65th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 1.68 % ... [46th of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for voluntary military service; when annual number of volunteers falls short of goal, compulsory recruitment is effected, including conscription of boys as young as 14; one estimate holds that 40% of the armed forces are under the age of 18, with 50% of those under the age of 16; conscript tour of duty - 12 months (2002)
US military exports $9,175.00 thousand [22nd of 109]
Weapon holdings 209,000 [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; 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; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; World Development Indicators database; 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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