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South America > Peru > Military

PERUVIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 15,000 [22nd of 49]
Armed forces growth -10 [83rd of 132]
Armed forces personnel 115,000 [37th of 166]
Army personnel 85,000 [26th of 49]
Conscription
Conscription exists.
Conventional arms exports $5,000,000.00 [33rd of 40]
Conventional arms imports $14,000,000.00 [66th of 85]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $1,000,000,000.00 [50th of 170]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 7,510,880 [38th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 17 [115th of 129]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Females age 18-49 269,799 [24th of 91]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 277,105 [31st of 157]
Navy personnel 25,000 [19th of 49]
Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict 1980
personnel 157,000 ... [42nd of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 1.18 % ... [72nd of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory military service (1999)
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier > National examples > Description
It contains the remains of a soldier who died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.
US military exports $3,166.00 thousand [33rd of 109]
Weapon holdings 948,000 [66th 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; 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; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Ongoing conflicts ; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Peru, Republic of Peru, Republica del Peru

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