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Southeast Asia > Burma > Military

BURMESE MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth 85 [22nd of 132]
Armed forces personnel 344,000 [12th of 166]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 20,000,000 constant 1990 US$ Time series [57th of 100]
Branches
Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw): Army, Navy, Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay)
Conscription
No conscription (FWCC).
Conventional arms imports $65,000,000.00 [41st of 85]
expenditure > % of GDP 1.3 % Time series [100th of 145]
Expenditures 2.1 % of GDP Time series [34th of 87]
Manpower > Availability > Females 13,437,042 Time series [21st of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males 13,402,788 Time series [25th of 210]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 12,349,900 [24th of 175]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 12,450,884 Time series [25th of 175]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males 9,031,046 Time series [24th of 210]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 6,609,995 Time series [30th of 174]
Manpower > Military age 18 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 423,809 Time series [25th of 226]
personnel 483,000 Time series [14th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 1.76 % Time series [43rd of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for voluntary military service for both sexes; forced conscription of children, although officially prohibited, reportedly continues
Weapon holdings 746,000 [76th 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; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Burma, Union of Burma, Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar), Myanma Naingngandaw, burma (myanmar), myanmar (burma), myanmar

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