| KYRGYZSTANI MILITARY STATS: |
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Armed forces personnel
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9,000 |
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[115th of 166]
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Branches
Army, Air Force, National Guard |
Conscription
No conscription (FWCC). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$5,000,000.00 |
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[81st of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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2.85 %
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[29th of 145]
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Expenditures
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1.4 % of GDP |
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[54th of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$19,200,000.00 |
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[21st of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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1,265,020 |
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[112nd 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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60,706 |
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[103rd of 226]
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personnel
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18,000
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[109th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.79 %
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[95th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory military service |
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US military exports
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$233.00 thousand |
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[81st of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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974,000 |
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[65th of 137]
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WMD > Biological
Kyrgyzstan acceded to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in October 2004. There is no evidence that it possesses or seeks biological weapons. |
WMD > Chemical
Kyrgyzstan signed and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in February and October 2003, respectively. Bishkek neither possesses nor pursues chemical weapons. |
WMD > Missile
The Dastan facility in Bishkek, which produces Shkval torpedoes and self-guidance and control systems, is the largest missile-related production facility in Kyrgyzstan. In November 2004, the Kyrgyzstani parliament voted to sell the state share in Dastan to Russian companies, including Rosoboronexport. The facility would reportedly produce torpedoes for the export market. |
WMD > Nuclear
From the 1950s to the 1990s, the Kara-Balta Ore Mining Combine in northern Kyrgyzstan processed uranium concentrate from deposits in both Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan for use in the Soviet Union's military and civilian nuclear industries. Kara-Balta continues to process Kazakhstani uranium concentrate into U3O8 in an arrangement with the Nuclear Power and Industrial Complex of Kazakhstan (Kazatomprom). Uranium extraction in Kyrgyzstan itself has ceased. Kara-Balta exports U3O8 to Kazatomprom's customers, including Russia. Radioactive waste in uranium tailings ponds in Kyrgyzstan poses a significant health threat. The European Union, Russia, and the United States have provided foreign assistance to help Kyrgyzstan come up with solutions to its uranium waste problem. Kyrgyzstan is party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and has an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
WMD > Overview
The smallest and second-least populated of the five former Soviet Central Asian states, mountainous Kyrgyzstan inherited a large uranium mining and milling complex and several military-related industrial facilities when the USSR broke apart. Uranium mining has now ceased, though the milling complex at Kara-Balta continues to process Kazakhstani yellowcake for export. Much of the remaining military industrial complex has either gone bankrupt, been converted to civilian use, or has reverted to Russian management. The main proliferation threat posed by Kyrgyzstan is its location near countries that possess nuclear and other WMD-related materials, namely Russia and Kazakhstan, and countries to its south that are allegedly seeking these materials. Kyrgyzstan also must deal with uranium tailings--a legacy of its once-bustling uranium industry-- that are dangerously close to large population centers. |
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