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Asia > India > Military

INDIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 110,000 [2nd of 49]
Armed forces growth 3 [67th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 1,303,000 [4th of 166]
Army personnel 980,000 [1st of 49]
Branches
Army, Navy (includes naval air arm), Air Force (Bharatiya Vayu Sena), Coast Guard
Conscription
No conscription (AI).
Conventional arms exports $22,000,000.00 [26th of 40]
Conventional arms imports $2,375,000,000.00 [1st of 85]
expenditure > % of GDP 2.87 % Time series [20th of 145]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $14,018,800,000.00 Time series [9th of 111]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 288,252,000 [2nd of 175]
Military Capabilities > Defense Budget $19,040,000,000.00 [5th of 10]
Military Capabilities > Tanks 3,978 [5th of 10]
Navy personnel 55,000 [7th of 49]
personnel 3,047,000 Time series [2nd of 170]
Service age and obligation
16 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; women officers allowed in noncombat roles only
Tanks 950 tanks [15th of 22]
US military exports $452.00 thousand [64th of 109]
Weapon holdings 10,538,000 [7th of 137]
WMD > Nuclear
India embarked on a nuclear power program in 1958 and a nuclear explosives program in 1968. Following a test of a nuclear device in May 1974, and five additional nuclear weapon-related tests in May 1998, India formally declared itself a nuclear weapon state. New Delhi's stock of weapons-grade plutonium is estimated to be between 240-395kg, which depending on the sophistication of the warhead design, could be used to manufacture 40-90 simple fission weapons. According to Indian government sources, India is capable of building a range of nuclear weapon systems ranging from "…low yields to 200 kilotons, involving fission, boosted-fission, and two-stage thermonuclear designs." India is not a member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

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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: Military Capabilities; Dr T.R. O'Connor, (05/15/04); Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC); The Nuclear Threat Initiative

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: India, Republic of India

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