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Europe > Bulgaria > Military

BULGARIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth -46 [115th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 80,000 [45th of 166]
Conscription
Conscription exists (WRI).
Conventional arms imports $12,000,000.00 [70th of 85]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $356,000,000.00 [80th of 170]
Forces in Europe > Aircraft 216 [11th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks 1,474 [8th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Helicopters 35 [12th of 22]
Iraq Coalition casualties 13 [6th of 18]
Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid $670,000.00 [34th of 40]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 1,854,050 [92nd of 175]
Manpower > Military age 19 [37th of 129]
personnel 85,000 ... [57th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 2.73 % ... [22nd of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; service in the Army is mandatory for all men under the age of 27; conscript service obligation - 9 months; as of May 2006, 67% of the Bulgarian Army comprised of professional soldiers; conscription into the Army to end as of 1 January 2008; Air and Air Defense Forces and Naval Forces became fully professional at the end of 2006; Bulgarian Armed Forces encountered difficulties meeting conscript quotas in April 2007 (2007)
Tanks 1,800 tanks [8th of 22]
Weapon holdings 4,838,000 [20th of 137]
WWII > Jew killed 14,000 [11th of 14]
WWII > Jewish population before war 64,000 [10th of 16]
WWII > Percent of Jew killed 22 [11th of 14]

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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; 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; Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE): A Review and Update of Key Treaty Elements (US Department of State: Washington, DC, Jan. 2002). Joint Consultative Group (JCG), Group on Treaty Operation and Implementation, JCG document JCG.TOI/22/03, 23 June 2003; Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count. March 19, 2006.; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Dr T.R. O'Connor, (05/15/04); Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC); Wikipedia: The War Against the Jews

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria

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