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Africa > Senegal > Military

SENEGALESE MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 400 [48th of 49]
Armed forces growth -7 [81st of 132]
Armed forces personnel 9,000 [110th of 166]
Army personnel 10,000 [43rd of 49]
Branches
Army, Senegalese Navy (Marine Senegalaise), Senegalese Air Force (Armee de l'Air du Senegal)
Conscription
Selective conscription.
expenditure > % of GDP 1.51 % Time series [63rd of 145]
Expenditures 1.4 % of GDP Time series [56th of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $107,300,000.00 Time series [46th of 111]
Gulf War Coalition Forces 500 [20th of 30]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 2,404,840 [80th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 18 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 141,832 Time series [70th of 226]
Navy personnel 600 [48th of 49]
Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict 1988
personnel 19,000 Time series [108th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.41 % Time series [128th of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 2 years
US military exports $4,606.00 thousand [30th of 109]
Weapon holdings 48,000 [127th 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; 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); World Development Indicators database; "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; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Wikipedia: Ongoing conflicts ; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Senegal, Republic of Senegal, Republique du Senegal

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