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Europe > Spain > Military

SPANISH MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth -67 [126th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 166,000 [30th of 166]
Conscription
Conscription exists.
Conventional arms exports $75,000,000.00 [16th of 40]
Conventional arms imports $261,000,000.00 [24th of 85]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $8,600,000,000.00 [15th of 170]
Forces in Europe > Aircraft 166 [14th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks 568 [15th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Helicopters 28 [15th of 22]
Gulf War Coalition Forces 500 [19th of 30]
Iraq Coalition casualties 11 [7th of 18]
Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid $220,000,000.00 [7th of 40]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 10,524,700 [29th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 20 [22nd of 129]
Naval officer ranks > Other officers > OF-5 Capitán de navío
Operation Enduring Freedom > Afghanistan coalition fatalities 17 [3rd of 13]
personnel 220,000 ... [27th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 1.05 % ... [79th of 168]
Service age and obligation 20 years of age (2004)
Weapon holdings 3,550,000 [26th 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; 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; 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; "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; Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count. March 19, 2006.; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; Wikipedia: Naval officer ranks ; Operation Enduring Freedom, icasualties.org, May 18, 2006; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Spain, Kingdom of Spain, Espana

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