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Europe > Romania > Military

ROMANIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth 9 [61st of 132]
Armed forces personnel 207,000 [24th of 166]
Branches
Land Forces, Naval Forces, Romanian Air Force (Fortele Aeriene Romane, FAR), Special Operations
Conscription
Conscription exists.
Conventional arms imports $276,000,000.00 [21st of 85]
expenditure > % of GDP 2.11 % Time series [39th of 145]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $985,000,000.00 Time series [13th of 111]
Forces in Europe > Aircraft 274 [9th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks 1,258 [9th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Helicopters 20 [17th of 22]
Iraq Coalition casualties 2 [15th of 18]
Iraq coalition forces > Troop strength 860 [7th of 10]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 5,912,280 [48th of 175]
personnel 177,000 Time series [36th of 170]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for voluntary military service; conscription officially ended October 2006; all military inductees (including women) contract for an initial 5-year term of service; subsequent voluntary service contracts are for successive 3-year terms until the age of 36
Tanks 1,300 tanks [12th of 22]
Weapon holdings 4,035,000 [24th of 137]
WWII > Jew killed 300,000 [3rd of 14]
WWII > Jewish population before war 600,000 [4th of 16]
WWII > Percent of Jew killed 50 [9th of 14]

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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; 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; Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count. March 19, 2006.; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Dr T.R. O'Connor, (05/15/04); Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC); Wikipedia: The War Against the Jews

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