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Air force personnel
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40,000 |
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[14th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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28 |
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[49th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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301,000 |
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[15th of 166]
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Army personnel
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150,000 |
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[16th of 49]
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Branches
Royal Thai Army (RTA), Royal Thai Navy (RTN, includes Royal Thai Marine Corps), Royal Thai Air Force (Knogtap Agard Thai, RTAF) |
Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC). |
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Conventional arms exports
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$5,000,000.00 |
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[34th of 40]
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Conventional arms imports
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$105,000,000.00 |
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[36th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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1.14 %
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[81st of 145]
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Expenditures
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1.8 % of GDP |
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[42nd of 87]
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Iraq Coalition casualties
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2 |
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[11th of 18]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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17,904,300 |
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[18th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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18 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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531,315 |
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[19th of 226]
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Navy personnel
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64,000 |
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[4th of 49]
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personnel
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421,000
|
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[16th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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1.18 %
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[71st of 168]
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Service age and obligation
21 years of age for compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; males are registered at 18 years of age; 2-year conscript service obligation |
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US military exports
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$177,899.00 thousand |
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[8th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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2,563,000 |
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[32nd 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; Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count. March 19, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand
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