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South America > Paraguay > Military

PARAGUAYAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth 40 [38th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 20,000 [95th of 166]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 1,000,000 constant 1990 US$ Time series [78th of 100]
Branches
Army, National Navy (Armada Nacional, includes Naval Aviation, Marine Corps, General Naval Prefecture), Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Paraguay, FAP)
Conscription
Conscription exists.
Conventional arms imports $4,000,000.00 [82nd of 85]
expenditure > % of central government expenditure 4.51 % Time series [42nd of 88]
expenditure > % of GDP 0.75 % Time series [100th of 145]
Expenditures 1 % of GDP Time series [63rd of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $53,100,000.00 Time series [56th of 111]
Manpower > Availability > Females 1,585,573 Time series [95th of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males 1,589,873 Time series [103rd of 210]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 1,465,780 [103rd of 175]
Manpower > Military age 17 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 72,109 Time series [90th of 226]
personnel 25,000 Time series [94th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.91 % Time series [88th of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 12 months for Army, 24 months for Navy
US military exports $712.00 thousand [47th of 109]
Weapon holdings 71,000 [122nd 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.; 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: Paraguay, Republic of Paraguay, Republica del Paraguay

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