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Air force personnel
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1,000 |
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[45th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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-54 |
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[120th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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7,000 |
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[122nd of 166]
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Army personnel
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7,000 |
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[47th of 49]
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Branches
Ghanaian Army, Ghanaian Navy, Ghanaian Air Force |
Conscription
No conscription (FWCC). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$27,000,000.00 |
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[54th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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0.75 %
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[101st of 145]
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Expenditures
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0.8 % of GDP |
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[69th of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$49,200,000.00 |
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[58th of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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5,729,939 |
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[46th of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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5,240,560 |
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[51st 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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273,265 |
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[42nd of 226]
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Navy personnel
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5,000 |
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[35th of 49]
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personnel
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7,000
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[140th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.07 %
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[159th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription |
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US military exports
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$241.00 thousand |
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[79th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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75,000 |
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[119th 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; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Ghana, Republic of Ghana
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