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Air force personnel
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13,500 |
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[26th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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-14 |
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[86th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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87,000 |
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[43rd of 166]
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Army personnel
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51,000 |
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[32nd of 49]
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Branches
Army of the Nation, Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile, includes naval air, marine corps, and Maritime Territory and Merchant Marine Directorate (Directemar)), Chilean Air Force (Fuerza Aerea de Chile, FACh), Carabineros Corps (Cuerpo de Carabineros) |
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI and NISBCO). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$43,000,000.00 |
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[47th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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3.78 %
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[12th of 145]
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Expenditures
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2.7 % of GDP |
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[30th of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$3,420,000,000.00 |
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[10th of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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4,154,640 |
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[56th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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19 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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147,518 |
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[62nd of 226]
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Navy personnel
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30,000 |
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[16th of 49]
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personnel
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116,000
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[50th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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1.78 %
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[42nd of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18-45 years of age for voluntary male and female military service, although the right to compulsory recruitment is retained; service obligation - 12 months for Army, 22 months for Navy and Air Force |
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier > National examples > Description
It contains the remains of a soldier who died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific. |
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US military exports
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$6,080.00 thousand |
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[27th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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1,123,000 |
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[63rd 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; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Wikipedia: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Chile, Republic of Chile, Republica de Chile
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