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Armed forces growth
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-20 |
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[91st of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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53,000 |
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[66th of 166]
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Arms imports > constant 1990 US$
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104,000,000 constant 1990 US$
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[36th of 100]
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Branches
Swedish Armed Forces (Forsvarsmakten): Army (Armen), Royal Swedish Navy (Marinen), Swedish Air Force (Svenska Flygvapnet) |
Conscription
Conscription exists. |
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Conventional arms exports
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$260,000,000.00 |
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[9th of 40]
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Conventional arms imports
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$13,000,000.00 |
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[68th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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1.56 %
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[61st of 145]
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Expenditures
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1.5 % of GDP |
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[49th of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$5,729,000,000.00 |
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[8th of 111]
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Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid
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$33,000,000.00 |
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[15th of 40]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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1,980,550 |
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[83rd of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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2,060,040 |
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[86th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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19 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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64,605 |
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[97th of 226]
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Operation Enduring Freedom > Afghanistan coalition fatalities
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2 |
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[10th of 13]
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personnel
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28,600
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[89th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.61 %
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[109th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
19 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation: 7-15 months (Navy), 8-12 months (Air Force); after completing initial service, soldiers have a reserve commitment until age 47 |
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Weapon holdings
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1,970,000 |
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[41st 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; World Development Indicators database; 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.; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Operation Enduring Freedom, icasualties.org, May 18, 2006; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Sweden, Kingdom of Sweden, Konungariket Sverige, Sverige
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