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Middle East > Kuwait > Military

KUWAITI MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air force personnel 2,500 [41st of 49]
    Air force personnel (per capita) 0.107 per 100 population [15th of 49]
Armed forces growth 28 [50th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 15,000 [99th of 166]
    Armed forces personnel (per capita) 6.42123 per 1,000 people [34th of 166]
Arms exports > constant 1990 US$ 82,000,000 constant 1990 US$ Time series [13th of 45]
    Arms exports > constant 1990 US$ (per capita) 40.454 constant 1990 US$ per 1 Time series [3rd of 83]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 55,000,000 constant 1990 US$ Time series [45th of 100]
    Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ (per capita) 21.692 constant 1990 US$ per c Time series [12th of 170]
Army personnel 11,000 [42nd of 49]
    Army personnel (per capita) 4.7089 per 1,000 people [17th of 49]
Branches
Land Forces, Kuwaiti Navy, Kuwaiti Air Force (Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Kuwaitiya), National Guard
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Ratification 06 MAY 2003
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Signature 24 SEP 1996
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI).
expenditure > % of central government expenditure 21.91 % Time series [3rd of 88]
expenditure > % of GDP 5.74 % Time series [4th of 145]
expenditure > current LCU 1354000000 Time series
Expenditures 5.3 % of GDP Time series [9th of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $2,584,500,000.00 Time series [12th of 111]
    Expenditures > Dollar figure (per $ GDP) $43.61 per 1,000 $ of GDP Time series [8th of 111]
    Expenditures > Dollar figure (per capita) $1,050.81 per capita Time series [1st of 111]
Expenditures > Percent of GDP 5.3% Time series [9th of 154]
Gulf War Coalition Forces 9,900 [8th of 30]
    Gulf War Coalition Forces (per capita) 4.238 per capita [1st of 30]
Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid $565,000,000.00 [3rd of 40]
    Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid (per $ GDP) $1,353.36 per $100,000 of GDP [1st of 40]
    Iraq pledges of reconstruction aid (per capita) $24,186.64 per 100 people [1st of 40]
Iraqi insurgency > Foreign fighter nationality distribution > Sorted alphabeticallyality 1 [22nd of 25]
Manpower > Availability > Females 568,657 Time series [128th of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males 1,032,408 Time series [124th of 210]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 845,026 [128th of 175]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 880,461 Time series [126th of 175]
    Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 (per capita) 0.358 per capita Time series [4th of 175]
    Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 (per capita) 361.741 per 1,000 people [2nd of 174]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Females 500,540 Time series [125th of 162]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males 892,816 Time series [118th of 210]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 531,556 Time series [129th of 174]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 508,399 [130th of 174]
    Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 (per capita) 0.216 per capita Time series [23rd of 174]
    Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 (per capita) 217.637 per 1,000 people [11th of 173]
Manpower > Military age 18 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females 18,519 Time series [144th of 226]
    Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females (per capita) 7.131 per 1,000 people Time series [164th of 225]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 17,737 Time series [145th of 226]
    Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males (per capita) 6.83 per 1,000 people Time series [179th of 225]
Manpower available for military service > Females age 18-49 467,120 [92nd of 120]
    Manpower available for military service > Females age 18-49 (per capita) 0.186 per capita [105th of 120]
Manpower available for military service > Males age 18-49 864,745 [89th of 164]
    Manpower available for military service > Males age 18-49 (per capita) 0.345 per capita [1st of 164]
Manpower fit for military service > Females age 18-49 405,207 [86th of 119]
    Manpower fit for military service > Females age 18-49 (per capita) 0.162 per capita [74th of 119]
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49 737,292 [83rd of 161]
    Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49 (per capita) 0.294 per capita [1st of 161]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Females age 18-49 20,065 [78th of 91]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 18,743 [115th of 157]
Navy personnel 1,800 [40th of 49]
    Navy personnel (per capita) 0.770548 per 1,000 people [16th of 49]
personnel 23,000 Time series [98th of 170]
    personnel (per capita) 9.071 per 1,000 people Time series [34th of 171]
personnel > % of total labor force 1.67 % Time series [49th of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; reserve obligation to age 40 with 1 month annual training; women have served in police forces since 1999
US military exports $329,162.00 thousand [6th of 109]
    US military exports (per capita) $140.91 thousand per 1,000 peopl [3rd of 109]
Weapon holdings 751,000 [75th of 137]
    Weapon holdings (per capita) 321,490 per 1 million people [22nd of 137]

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; World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ; 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); "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; Wikipedia: Iraqi insurgency ; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Kuwait, State of Kuwait, Dawlat al Kuwayt, Al Kuwayt

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