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Africa > Nigeria > Military

NIGERIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 15,000 [23rd of 49]
Armed forces growth -19 [90th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 76,000 [46th of 166]
Army personnel 62,000 [29th of 49]
Branches
Nigerian Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Air Force
Conscription
No conscription.
Conventional arms imports $10,000,000.00 [74th of 85]
expenditure > % of GDP 0.86 % Time series [98th of 145]
Expenditures 1.5 % of GDP Time series [52nd of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $544,600,000.00 Time series [23rd of 111]
Manpower > Availability > Females 30,638,979 Time series [8th of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 31,790,500 [9th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 18 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 1,663,025 Time series [7th of 226]
Navy personnel 15,000 [24th of 49]
Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict 1992
personnel 161,000 Time series [41st of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.34 % Time series [138th of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for voluntary military service
Weapon holdings 1,206,000 [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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