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Europe > Norway > Military

NORWEGIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 6,700 [35th of 49]
Armed forces growth -28 [101st of 132]
Armed forces personnel 27,000 [87th of 166]
Army personnel 28,900 [36th of 49]
Branches
Norwegian Army (Haeren), Royal Norwegian Navy (Kongelige Norske Sjoeforsvaret, RNoN; includes Coastal Rangers and Coast Guard (Kystvakt)), Royal Norwegian Air Force (Kongelige Norske Luftforsvaret, RNoAF), Home Guard (Heimevernet, HV)
Conscription
Conscription exists.
Conventional arms exports $51,000,000.00 [20th of 40]
Conventional arms imports $1,000,000.00 [84th of 85]
expenditure > % of GDP 1.65 % Time series [57th of 145]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $4,033,500,000.00 Time series [20th of 111]
Forces in Europe > Aircraft 66 [22nd of 24]
Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks 165 [22nd of 24]
Gulf War Coalition Forces 50 [30th of 30]
Navy personnel 6,100 [33rd of 49]
personnel 47,000 Time series [78th of 170]
Service age and obligation
18-44 years of age for male compulsory military service; 16 years of age in wartime; 17 years of age for male volunteers; 18 years of age for women; 12-month service obligation, in practice shortened to 8 to 9 months; although all males between ages of 18 and 44 are liable for service, in practice they are seldom called to duty after age 30; reserve obligation to age 35-60; 16 years of age for volunteers to the Home Guard, who serve 6-month duty tours
Weapon holdings 613,000 [78th of 137]
WWII > Jew killed 900 [14th of 14]
WWII > Jewish population before war 1,800 [16th of 16]
WWII > Percent of Jew killed 50 [8th of 14]

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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; Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE): A Review and Update of Key Treaty Elements (US Department of State: Washington, DC, Jan. 2002). Joint Consultative Group (JCG), Group on Treaty Operation and Implementation, JCG document JCG.TOI/22/03, 23 June 2003; "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; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC); Wikipedia: The War Against the Jews

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Norway, Kingdom of Norway, Kongeriket Norge, Norge

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