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Africa > Uganda > Military

UGANDAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth 150 [10th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 50,000 [70th of 166]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 26,000,000 constant 1990 US$ Time series [58th of 100]
Branches
Uganda Peoples Defense Force (UPDF): Army (includes Marine Unit), Air Force
Conscription
No conscription.
Conventional arms imports $19,000,000.00 [60th of 85]
expenditure > % of central government expenditure 11.06 % Time series [23rd of 88]
expenditure > % of GDP 2.45 % Time series [39th of 145]
Expenditures 2.2 % of GDP Time series [40th of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $170,300,000.00 Time series [38th of 111]
Manpower > Availability > Females 6,352,416 Time series [42nd of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males 6,532,894 Time series [45th of 210]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 5,476,610 [49th of 175]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 384,638 Time series [29th of 226]
Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict 1987
personnel 47,000 Time series [76th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.4 % Time series [132nd of 168]
Service age and obligation
18-26 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military duty; 18-30 years of age for professionals; 9-year service obligation; the government has stated that recruitment below 18 years of age could occur with proper consent and that "no person under the apparent age of 13 years shall be enrolled in the armed forces"; Ugandan citizenship and secondary education required
US military exports $736.00 thousand [46th of 109]
Weapon holdings 286,000 [95th 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.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Wikipedia: Ongoing conflicts ; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Uganda, Republic of Uganda

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Zion
25th July 2009
Its the strongest in Africa
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