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Air force personnel
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3,500 |
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[39th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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3 |
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[66th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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66,000 |
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[51st of 166]
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Army personnel
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37,000 |
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[34th of 49]
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Branches
Army (includes Republican Guard), Navy (includes Marines), Yemen Air Force (Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Jamahiriya al Yemeniya; includes Air Defense Force) |
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$309,000,000.00 |
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[17th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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5.6 %
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[5th of 145]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$885,500,000.00 |
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[32nd of 111]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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4,443,310 |
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[55th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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14 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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268,468 |
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[44th of 226]
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Navy personnel
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1,500 |
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[41st of 49]
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Note
a Coast Guard was established in 2002 |
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Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict
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2004 |
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personnel
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138,000
|
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[44th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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2.32 %
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[30th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
voluntary military service program authorized in 2001; 2-year service obligation |
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Tanks
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1,000 tanks |
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[14th of 22]
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US military exports
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$41.00 thousand |
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[99th of 109]
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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; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Wikipedia: Ongoing conflicts
; Dr T.R. O'Connor, (05/15/04); Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Yemen, Republic of Yemen, Al Jumhuriyah al Yamaniyah, Al Yaman, democratic yemen [former]
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