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Southeast Asia > Philippines > Military

PHILIPPINE MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 17,400 [21st of 49]
Armed forces growth -8 [82nd of 132]
Armed forces personnel 106,000 [39th of 166]
Army personnel 74,500 [28th of 49]
Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC).
Conventional arms imports $59,000,000.00 [43rd of 85]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $995,000,000.00 [52nd of 170]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 21,923,300 [13th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 20 [10th of 129]
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49 15,170,096 [12th of 161]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Females age 18-49 878,712 [7th of 91]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 907,542 [11th of 157]
Navy personnel 25,900 [18th of 49]
Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict 1967
personnel 147,000 ... [43rd of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.4 % ... [133rd of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2001)
US deployment 0.8%
US military exports $44,450.00 thousand [15th of 109]
Weapon holdings 794,000 [71st 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; Dr T.R. O'Connor, (05/15/04); Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Philippines, Republic of the Philippines, Republika ng Pilipinas, Pilipinas, the philippines

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