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Armed forces personnel
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5,000 |
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[128th of 166]
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Branches
Estonian Defense Forces: Land Force, Navy, Air Force (Eesti Ohuvagi), Volunteer Defense League (Kaitseliit, KL) |
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Source: IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press |
Conscription
Conscription exists (ECCO). |
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Conventional arms imports
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$5,000,000.00 |
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[80th of 85]
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Source: 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) |
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expenditure > % of GDP
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1.56 %
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[62nd of 145]
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Source: SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). 2005. SIPRI Arms Transfers. Database. February. Stockholm. |
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Expenditures
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2 % of GDP |
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[36th of 87]
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Source: World Development Indicators database |
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$155,000,000.00 |
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[28th of 111]
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Iraq Coalition casualties
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2 |
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[10th of 18]
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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317,852 |
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[137th of 162]
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Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count. March 19, 2006. |
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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360,440 |
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[145th of 175]
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Manpower > Military age
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18 years of age |
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|
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Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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8,322 |
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[156th of 226]
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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personnel
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8,000
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[137th of 170]
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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personnel > % of total labor force
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1.21 %
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[67th of 168]
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Source: World Development Indicators database |
Service age and obligation
compulsory military service for men between 19 and 28; conscription lasts 11 months for junior NCOs and reserve platoon leaders; reserve officers and designated specialists have a different conscript service obligation; Estonia has committed to retaining conscription for men up to 2010 and, unlike Latvia and Lithuania, has no plan to transition to a contract armed forces; 17 years of age for volunteers; reserve commitment up to the age of 60 |
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Source: World Development Indicators database |
WMD > Biological
Estonia acceded to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in June 1993 and is a member of the Australia Group. There is no evidence to suggest that Tallinn possesses or is pursuing biological weapons capabilities. |
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
WMD > Chemical
Estonia is a founding member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It is also a member of the Australia Group. There is no evidence to suggest that Tallinn possesses or is pursuing chemical weapons. |
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Source: The Nuclear Threat Initiative |
WMD > Missile
Estonia does not possess or produce ballistic missiles and is a signatory to the International Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missiles. |
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Source: The Nuclear Threat Initiative |
WMD > Nuclear
Estonia played an important role in both the civilian and military nuclear programs of the former Soviet Union. Its major facilities were the Sillamae Metal and Chemical Production Plant (Silmet), which milled uranium ore until 1990, when it began to focus exclusively on rare-earth metal production, and the Paldiski training reactor facility, which had two research reactors (now dismantled) that were used to train Soviet naval personnel to work on nuclear submarines. Estonia receives foreign assistance from a number of countries, particularly from Scandinavia, to improve conditions at radioactive waste sites associated with the nuclear complex. Estonia is party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and signed an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency in April 2000. |
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Source: The Nuclear Threat Initiative |
WMD > Overview
Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940, Estonia was home to major Soviet nuclear and military facilities. After it regained its freedom in 1991, Tallinn dismantled many of the Soviet-era facilities, and joined international treaties, regimes, and organizations, including both NATO and the European Union in the spring of 2004. Nonproliferation issues concerning Estonia stem primarily from the field of export controls. |
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Source: The Nuclear Threat Initiative |
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