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| SRI LANKAN MILITARY STATS: |
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Armed forces growth
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432 |
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[3rd of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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115,000 |
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[36th of 166]
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Arms imports > constant 1990 US$
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8,000,000 constant 1990 US$
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[69th of 100]
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Branches
Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy, Sri Lanka Air Force |
Conscription
No conscription (AI). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$6,000,000.00 |
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[77th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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2.66 %
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[25th of 145]
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Expenditures
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2.6 % of GDP |
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[31st of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$514,800,000.00 |
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[24th of 111]
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Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid
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$75,500.00 |
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[38th of 40]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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5,594,006 |
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[47th of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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5,383,660 |
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[50th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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18 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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174,065 |
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[57th of 226]
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Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict
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1983 |
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personnel
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200,000
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[32nd of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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2.38 %
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[26th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age for voluntary military service |
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US military exports
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$1,259.00 thousand |
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[39th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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379,000 |
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[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; 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.; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Wikipedia: Ongoing conflicts
; 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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