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Armed forces personnel
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5,000 |
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[128th of 166]
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Branches
Estonian Defense Forces: Land Force, Navy, Air Force (Eesti Ohuvagi), Volunteer Defense League (Kaitseliit, KL) |
Conscription
Conscription exists (ECCO). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$5,000,000.00 |
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[80th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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1.56 %
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[62nd of 145]
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Expenditures
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2 % of GDP |
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[36th of 87]
|
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
|
$155,000,000.00 |
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[28th of 111]
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Iraq Coalition casualties
|
2 |
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[10th of 18]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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317,852 |
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[137th of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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360,440 |
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[145th 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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8,322 |
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[156th of 226]
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personnel
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8,000
|
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[137th of 170]
|
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personnel > % of total labor force
|
1.21 %
|
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[67th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
compulsory military service for men between 19 and 28; conscription lasts 11 months for junior NCOs and reserve platoon leaders; reserve officers and designated specialists have a different conscript service obligation; Estonia has committed to retaining conscription for men up to 2010 and, unlike Latvia and Lithuania, has no plan to transition to a contract armed forces; 17 years of age for volunteers; reserve commitment up to the age of 60 |
WMD > Biological
Estonia acceded to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in June 1993 and is a member of the Australia Group. There is no evidence to suggest that Tallinn possesses or is pursuing biological weapons capabilities. |
WMD > Chemical
Estonia is a founding member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It is also a member of the Australia Group. There is no evidence to suggest that Tallinn possesses or is pursuing chemical weapons. |
WMD > Missile
Estonia does not possess or produce ballistic missiles and is a signatory to the International Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missiles. |
WMD > Nuclear
Estonia played an important role in both the civilian and military nuclear programs of the former Soviet Union. Its major facilities were the Sillamae Metal and Chemical Production Plant (Silmet), which milled uranium ore until 1990, when it began to focus exclusively on rare-earth metal production, and the Paldiski training reactor facility, which had two research reactors (now dismantled) that were used to train Soviet naval personnel to work on nuclear submarines. Estonia receives foreign assistance from a number of countries, particularly from Scandinavia, to improve conditions at radioactive waste sites associated with the nuclear complex. Estonia is party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and signed an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency in April 2000. |
WMD > Overview
Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940, Estonia was home to major Soviet nuclear and military facilities. After it regained its freedom in 1991, Tallinn dismantled many of the Soviet-era facilities, and joined international treaties, regimes, and organizations, including both NATO and the European Union in the spring of 2004. Nonproliferation issues concerning Estonia stem primarily from the field of export controls. |
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