|
|
|
Air force personnel
|
4,000 |
|
[38th of 49]
|
|
Armed forces growth
|
51 |
|
[33rd of 132]
|
|
Armed forces personnel
|
65,000 |
|
[52nd of 166]
|
|
Army personnel
|
59,000 |
|
[30th of 49]
|
Branches
United Arab Emirates Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force and Air Defense, National Coast Guard |
Conscription
No conscription (AI). |
|
Conventional arms exports
|
$3,000,000.00 |
|
[36th of 40]
|
|
Conventional arms imports
|
$1,246,000,000.00 |
|
[4th of 85]
|
|
expenditure > % of GDP
|
1.93 %
|
|
[42nd of 145]
|
|
Expenditures
|
3.1 % of GDP |
|
[22nd of 87]
|
|
Expenditures > Dollar figure
|
$1,600,000,000.00 |
|
[5th of 111]
|
|
Gulf War Coalition Forces
|
4,300 |
|
[11th of 30]
|
|
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
|
764,413 |
|
[133rd of 175]
|
|
Manpower > Military age
|
18 years of age |
|
|
|
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
|
25,856 |
|
[140th of 226]
|
|
Navy personnel
|
1,500 |
|
[42nd of 49]
|
|
personnel
|
51,000
|
|
[72nd of 170]
|
|
personnel > % of total labor force
|
1.87 %
|
|
[37th of 168]
|
Service age and obligation
18 years of age (est.) for voluntary military service; 18 years of age for officers and women; no conscription |
|
Weapon holdings
|
1,574,000 |
|
[48th 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); SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). 2005. SIPRI Arms Transfers. Database. February. Stockholm.; 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; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
United Arab Emirates, Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah, united ar. em., united arab emir., united arab emirates b, uae, the united arab emirates
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