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Armed forces growth
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150 |
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[10th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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50,000 |
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[70th of 166]
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Arms imports > constant 1990 US$
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26,000,000 constant 1990 US$
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[58th of 100]
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Branches
Uganda Peoples Defense Force (UPDF): Army (includes Marine Unit), Air Force |
Conscription
No conscription. |
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Conventional arms imports
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$19,000,000.00 |
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[60th of 85]
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expenditure > % of central government expenditure
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11.06 %
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[23rd of 88]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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2.45 %
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[39th of 145]
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Expenditures
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2.2 % of GDP |
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[40th of 87]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$170,300,000.00 |
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[38th of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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6,352,416 |
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[42nd of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males
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6,532,894 |
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[45th of 210]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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5,476,610 |
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[49th of 175]
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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384,638 |
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[29th of 226]
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Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict
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1987 |
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personnel
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47,000
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[76th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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0.4 %
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[132nd of 168]
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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 |
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US military exports
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$736.00 thousand |
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[46th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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286,000 |
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[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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