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Africa > Gabon > Military

GABONESE MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 1,000 [46th of 49]
Armed forces growth 96 [20th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 5,000 [132nd of 166]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 5,000,000 constant 1990 US$ Time series [83rd of 100]
Army personnel 3,200 [49th of 49]
Branches
Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police
Conscription
No conscription (FWCC).
expenditure > % of GDP 1.44 % Time series [68th of 145]
Expenditures 3.4 % of GDP Time series [17th of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $184,800,000.00 Time series [34th of 111]
Manpower > Availability > Females 332,498 Time series [136th of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males 331,181 Time series [148th of 210]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 305,603 [151st of 175]
Manpower > Military age 20 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 16,558 Time series [147th of 226]
Navy personnel 500 [49th of 49]
personnel 7,000 Time series [139th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 1.17 % Time series [75th of 168]
Service age and obligation
20 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service
Weapon holdings 60,000 [126th 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; 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); CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Gabon, Gabonese Republic, Republique Gabonaise

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