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Air force personnel
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15,000 |
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[23rd of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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-19 |
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[90th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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76,000 |
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[46th of 166]
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Army personnel
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62,000 |
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[29th of 49]
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Branches
Nigerian Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Air Force |
Conscription
No conscription. |
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Conventional arms imports
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$10,000,000.00 |
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[74th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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0.86 %
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[98th of 145]
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Expenditures
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1.5 % of GDP |
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[52nd of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$544,600,000.00 |
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[23rd of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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30,638,979 |
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[8th of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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31,790,500 |
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[9th 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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1,663,025 |
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[7th of 226]
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Navy personnel
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15,000 |
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[24th of 49]
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Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict
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1992 |
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personnel
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161,000
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[41st of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.34 %
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[138th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age for voluntary military service |
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Weapon holdings
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1,206,000 |
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[57th 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
; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria
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