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Armed forces growth
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49 |
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[35th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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44,000 |
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[72nd of 166]
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Arms imports > constant 1990 US$
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98,000,000 constant 1990 US$
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[38th of 100]
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Branches
Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF): Royal Army of Oman, Royal Navy of Oman, Royal Air Force of Oman |
Conscription
No conscription. |
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Conventional arms imports
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$123,000,000.00 |
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[35th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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12.25 %
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[1st of 145]
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Expenditures
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11.4 % of GDP |
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[1st of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$252,990,000.00 |
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[29th of 111]
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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6,300 |
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[9th of 30]
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Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid
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$3,000,000.00 |
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[28th of 40]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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626,841 |
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[127th of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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788,429 |
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[132nd of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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14 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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34,238 |
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[120th of 226]
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personnel
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46,000
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[79th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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4.81 %
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[11th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18-30 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription |
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US military exports
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$10,384.00 thousand |
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[17th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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503,000 |
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[84th of 137]
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SOURCES: 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; World Development Indicators database; 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.; "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; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; 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:
Oman, Sultanate of Oman, Saltanat Uman, Uman
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