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Armed forces growth
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38 |
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[39th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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28,000 |
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[86th of 166]
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Arms imports > constant 1990 US$
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144,000,000 constant 1990 US$
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[32nd of 100]
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Branches
Swiss Armed Forces: Land Forces, Swiss Air Force (Schweizer Luftwaffe) |
Conscription
Conscription exists (WRI). |
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Conventional arms exports
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$154,000,000.00 |
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[12th of 40]
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Conventional arms imports
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$125,000,000.00 |
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[34th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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0.96 %
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[94th of 145]
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Expenditures
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1 % of GDP |
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[63rd of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$2,548,000,000.00 |
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[4th of 111]
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M2 Browning machine gun > International usage > NATO Member
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No |
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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1,807,667 |
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[90th of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males
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1,852,580 |
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[96th of 210]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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1,834,640 |
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[93rd of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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20 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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49,205 |
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[110th of 226]
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personnel
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109,000
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[52nd of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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2.6 %
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[24th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
19 years of age for male compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary male and female military service; the Swiss Constitution states that "every Swiss male is obliged to do military service"; every Swiss male has to serve at least 260 days in the armed forces; conscripts receive 18 weeks of mandatory training, followed by seven 3-week intermittent recalls for training during the next 10 years |
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Weapon holdings
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2,432,000 |
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[34th 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.; Wikipedia: M2 Browning machine gun
; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Switzerland, Swiss Confederation, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Confederation Suisse, Confederazione Svizzera, Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera
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