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Air force personnel
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8,000 |
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[33rd of 49]
|
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Armed forces growth
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49 |
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[36th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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193,000 |
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[28th of 166]
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Army personnel
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130,000 |
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[18th of 49]
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Branches
Secretariat of National Defense (Secretaria de Defensa Nacional, Sedena): Army (Ejercito, includes Mexican Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Mexicana, FAM)); Secretariat of the Navy (Secretaria de Marina, Semar): Mexican Navy (Armada de Mexico, ARM, includes Naval Air Force (FAN) and naval infantry) |
Conscription
Conscription exists. |
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Conventional arms imports
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$265,000,000.00 |
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[23rd of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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0.39 %
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[113rd of 145]
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Expenditures
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0.5 % of GDP |
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[78th of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$6,043,000,000.00 |
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[6th of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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27,751,500 |
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[11th 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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1,110,544 |
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[9th of 226]
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Navy personnel
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37,000 |
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[15th of 49]
|
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Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict
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2006 |
|
|
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personnel
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204,000
|
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[30th of 170]
|
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.48 %
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[124th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory military service, conscript service obligation - 12 months; 16 years of age with consent for voluntary enlistment; conscripts serve only in the Army; Navy and Air Force service is all voluntary; women are eligible for voluntary military service |
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US military exports
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$8,691.00 thousand |
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[23rd of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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1,235,000 |
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[55th 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); SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). 2005. SIPRI Arms Transfers. Database. February. Stockholm.; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Wikipedia: Ongoing conflicts
; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Mexico, ma*a(c)xico, United Mexican States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos
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