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| COLOMBIAN MILITARY STATS: |
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Air force personnel
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7,300 |
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[34th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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130 |
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[13th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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152,000 |
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[32nd of 166]
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Army personnel
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121,000 |
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[19th of 49]
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Branches
National Army (Ejercito Nacional), National Navy (Armada Nacional, includes Naval Aviation, Naval Infantry (Infanteria de Marina, Colmar), and Coast Guard), Colombian Air Force (Fuerza Aerea de Colombia, FAC) |
Conscription
Conscription exists. |
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Conventional arms imports
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$17,000,000.00 |
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[62nd of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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3.73 %
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[14th of 145]
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Expenditures
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3.4 % of GDP |
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[19th of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$3,300,000,000.00 |
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[2nd of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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11,101,700 |
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[28th 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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442,403 |
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[24th of 226]
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Navy personnel
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18,000 |
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[23rd of 49]
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Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict
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1964 |
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personnel
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336,000
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[19th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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1.5 %
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[53rd of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18-24 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; service obligation - 18 months |
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US military exports
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$120,503.00 thousand |
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[9th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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373,000 |
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[92nd 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: Ongoing conflicts
; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Colombia, Republic of Colombia, Republica de Colombia, columbia
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