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Armed forces growth	33		[46th of 132]
Armed forces personnel	198,000		[27th of 166]
Source: 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
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$	32,000,000 constant 1990 US$		[49th of 100]
Source: IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Branches Royal Armed Forces (Forces Armees Royales, FAR): Royal Moroccan Army (includes Air Defense), Navy (includes Marines), Royal Moroccan Air Force (Al Quwwat al Jawyiya al Malakiya Marakishiya; Force Aerienne Royale Marocaine)
Source: World Development Indicators database
Conscription Conscription exists (FWCC).
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
expenditure > % of central government expenditure	13.69 %		[12th of 88]
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 GDP	4.28 %		[10th of 145]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Expenditures > Dollar figure	$2,305,600,000.00		[28th of 111]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Gulf War Coalition Forces	13,000		[7th of 30]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Availability > Females	9,080,830		[32nd of 162]
Source: "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
Manpower > Availability > Males	9,152,580		[34th of 210]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49	8,595,800		[34th of 175]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49	5,529,267		[35th of 174]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Manpower > Military age	18 years of age
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males	355,479		[33rd of 226]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
personnel	251,000		[25th of 170]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
personnel > % of total labor force	2.26 %		[31st of 168]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Service age and obligation 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months
Source: World Development Indicators database
US military exports	$10,188.00 thousand		[18th of 109]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Weapon holdings	2,187,000		[37th of 137]
Source: Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy

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