|
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Air force personnel
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2,500 |
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[41st of 49]
|
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Armed forces growth
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28 |
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[50th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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15,000 |
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[99th of 166]
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Army personnel
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11,000 |
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[42nd of 49]
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Branches
Land Forces, Kuwaiti Navy, Kuwaiti Air Force (Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya), National Guard |
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI). |
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expenditure > % of GDP
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5.74 %
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[4th of 145]
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Expenditures
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5.3 % of GDP |
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[9th of 87]
|
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$2,584,500,000.00 |
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[12th of 111]
|
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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9,900 |
|
[8th of 30]
|
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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568,657 |
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[128th of 162]
|
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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845,026 |
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[128th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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18 years of age |
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|
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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17,737 |
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[145th of 226]
|
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Navy personnel
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1,800 |
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[40th of 49]
|
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personnel
|
23,000
|
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[98th of 170]
|
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personnel > % of total labor force
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1.67 %
|
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[49th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; reserve obligation to age 40 with 1 month annual training; women have served in police forces since 1999 |
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US military exports
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$329,162.00 thousand |
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[6th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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751,000 |
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[75th 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; "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; 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:
Kuwait, State of Kuwait, Dawlat al Kuwayt, Al Kuwayt
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