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Europe > Germany > Military

GERMAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 76,200 [5th of 49]
Armed forces growth -54 [119th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 221,000 [21st of 166]
Army personnel 230,600 [10th of 49]
Branches
Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr): Army (Heer), Navy (Deutsche Marine, includes naval air arm), Air Force (Luftwaffe), Central Medical Service (Zentraler Sanitaetsdienst)
Conscription
Conscription exists.
expenditure > % of GDP 1.35 % Time series [73rd of 145]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $35,063,000,000.00 Time series [5th of 111]
Exports to developing nations $4,336.00 million [6th of 7]
Forces in Europe > Aircraft 375 [7th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks 2,368 [4th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Helicopters 199 [4th of 22]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 20,509,800 [14th of 175]
Navy personnel 26,700 [17th of 49]
personnel 285,000 Time series [21st of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.7 % Time series [104th of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age (conscripts serve a nine-month tour of compulsory military service)
Tanks 2,300 tanks [5th of 22]
US deployment 12%
Weapon holdings 0 [138th 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); World Development Indicators database; Richard F. Grimmett, "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1992-1999" (Washington: Congressional Research Service, August 18, 2000), p. 51; Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE): A Review and Update of Key Treaty Elements (US Department of State: Washington, DC, Jan. 2002). Joint Consultative Group (JCG), Group on Treaty Operation and Implementation, JCG document JCG.TOI/22/03, 23 June 2003; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Dr T.R. O'Connor, (05/15/04); Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Deutschland, west germany

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