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Air force personnel
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4,000 |
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[38th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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51 |
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[33rd of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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65,000 |
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[52nd of 166]
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Army personnel
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59,000 |
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[30th of 49]
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Conscription
No conscription (AI). |
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Conventional arms exports
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$3,000,000.00 |
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[36th of 40]
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Conventional arms imports
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$1,246,000,000.00 |
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[4th of 85]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$1,600,000,000.00 |
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[42nd of 170]
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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4,300 |
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[11th of 30]
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Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid
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$215,000,000.00 |
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[8th of 40]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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764,413 |
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[133rd of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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18 |
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[104th of 129]
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Manpower fit for military service > Females age 18-49
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419,975
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[85th of 119]
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Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49
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526,671
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[94th of 161]
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Manpower reaching military service age annually > Females age 18-49
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29,617
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[70th of 91]
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Navy personnel
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1,500 |
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[42nd of 49]
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personnel
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51,000
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[72nd of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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1.87 %
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[37th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age (est.); no conscription (2001) |
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Weapon holdings
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1,574,000 |
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[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; 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; "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; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; World Development Indicators database; 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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