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Europe > Croatia > Military

CROATIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces personnel 61,000 [56th of 166]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 8,000,000 constant 1990 US$ Time series [79th of 100]
Source: IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Branches
Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia (Oruzane Snage Republike Hrvatske, OSRH), consists of five major commands directly subordinate to a General Staff: Ground Forces (Hrvatska Kopnena Vojska, HKoV), Naval Forces (Hrvatska Ratna Mornarica, HRM), Air Force (Hrvatsko Ratno Zrakoplovstvo, HRZ), Joint Education and Training Command, Logistics Command; Military Police Force supports each of the three Croatian military forces
Source: World Development Indicators database
Conscription
Conscription exists.
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Conventional arms imports $8,000,000.00 [76th of 85]
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)
expenditure > % of central government expenditure 3.95 % Time series [51st of 88]
Source: SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). 2005. SIPRI Arms Transfers. Database. February. Stockholm.
expenditure > % of GDP 1.59 % Time series [58th of 145]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Expenditures 2.39 % of GDP Time series [31st of 87]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Expenditures > Dollar figure $620,000,000.00 Time series [22nd of 111]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Availability > Females 1,037,896 Time series [113rd of 162]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Availability > Males 1,035,712 Time series [122nd of 210]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 1,081,140 [119th of 175]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 873,994 Time series [111st of 174]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Manpower > Military age 19 years of age Time series
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 27,500 Time series [136th of 226]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
personnel 31,000 Time series [86th of 170]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
personnel > % of total labor force 1.59 % Time series [52nd of 168]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Service age and obligation
18-27 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age with consent for voluntary service; 6-month conscript service obligation; full conversion to professional military service by 2010
Source: World Development Indicators database
US military exports $335.00 thousand [71st of 109]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Weapon holdings 1,171,000 [60th of 137]
Source: Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy

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SOURCES: 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; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Croatia, Republic of Croatia, Republika Hrvatska, Hrvatska, croatia/hrvatska

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