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Asia > Sri Lanka > Military

SRI LANKAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth 432 [3rd of 132]
Armed forces personnel 115,000 [36th of 166]
Conscription
No conscription (AI).
Conventional arms imports $6,000,000.00 [77th of 85]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $719,000,000.00 [60th of 170]
Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid $75,500.00 [38th of 40]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 5,383,660 [50th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 18 [42nd of 129]
Manpower available for military service > Females age 18-49 5,153,597 [30th of 120]
Manpower available for military service > Males age 18-49 4,933,217 [35th of 164]
Manpower fit for military service > Females age 18-49 4,281,043 [28th of 119]
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49 3,789,627 [33rd of 161]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Females age 18-49 167,201 [36th of 91]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 174,049 [50th of 157]
Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict 1983
personnel 200,000 ... [32nd of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 2.38 % ... [26th of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
US military exports $1,259.00 thousand [39th of 109]
Weapon holdings 379,000 [90th 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; 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; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Ongoing conflicts ; 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: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ceylon

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