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Air force personnel
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14,000 |
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[25th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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-29 |
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[102nd of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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59,000 |
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[58th of 166]
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Army personnel
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20,900 |
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[39th of 49]
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Branches
Canadian Forces: Land Forces Command (LFC), Maritime Command (MARCOM), Air Command (AIRCOM), Canada Command (homeland security) |
Conscription
No conscription (AI). |
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Conventional arms exports
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$543,000,000.00 |
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[5th of 40]
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Conventional arms imports
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$340,000,000.00 |
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[14th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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1.14 %
|
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[82nd of 145]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$9,801,700,000.00 |
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[13th of 111]
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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2,000 |
|
[14th of 30]
|
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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8,391,120 |
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[36th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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16 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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227,435 |
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[50th of 226]
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Navy personnel
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9,000 |
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[28th of 49]
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Operation Enduring Freedom > Afghanistan coalition fatalities
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16 |
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[4th of 13]
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personnel
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71,000
|
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[64th of 170]
|
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.4 %
|
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[131st of 168]
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Service age and obligation
17 years of age for male and female voluntary military service (with parental consent); 16 years of age for reserve and military college applicants; Canadian citizenship or permanent residence status required; maximum 34 years of age; service obligation 3-9 years |
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Weapon holdings
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1,774,000 |
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[44th 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; "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Operation Enduring Freedom, icasualties.org, May 18, 2006; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
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