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Military Stats: compare key data on Cuba & Puerto Rico

Definitions

  • Branches: The names of the ground, naval, air, marine, and other defense or security forces
  • Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males: The number of draft-age males and females entering the military manpower pool in any given year and is a measure of the availability of draft-age young adults.
  • Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males per 1000: The number of draft-age males and females entering the military manpower pool in any given year and is a measure of the availability of draft-age young adults. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Males: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults.
  • Manpower reaching military age annually > Females: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching military age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults.
  • Manpower reaching military age annually > Females per thousand people: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching military age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
  • Manpower reaching military age annually > Males: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching military age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults.
  • Manpower reaching military age annually > Males per thousand people: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching military age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous military information of significance not included elsewhere.
  • Military branches: This entry lists the service branches subordinate to defense ministries or the equivalent (typically ground, naval, air, and marine forces).
  • War deaths: Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths--military as well as civilian--incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths."
  • Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Males per thousand people: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
  • Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Females per thousand people: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults. Figures expressed per thousand people for the same year.
  • Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Females: This entry is derived from Military > Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually, which gives the number of males and females entering the military manpower pool (i.e., reaching age 16) in any given year and is a measure of the availability of military-age young adults.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous military information of significance not included elsewhere.
  • Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females per 1000: . Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females > Per capita: Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
  • Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males > Per capita: The number of draft-age males and females entering the military manpower pool in any given year and is a measure of the availability of draft-age young adults. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
STAT Cuba Puerto Rico HISTORY
Branches Revolutionary Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, FAR): Revolutionary Army (ER; includes Territorial Militia Troops, MTT), Revolutionary Navy (Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria, MGR; includes Marine Corps), Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force (DAAFAR), Youth Labor Army (EJT) no regular indigenous military forces; paramilitary National Guard, Police Force
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 79,945
Ranked 86th. 3 times more than Puerto Rico
30,760
Ranked 128th.
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males per 1000 7.08
Ranked 151st.
8.18
Ranked 135th. 16% more than Cuba
Manpower fit for military service > Females age 16-49 None 786035
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 16-49 None None
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Female 69108 29010
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Male 72823 30517
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Males 72,823
Ranked 89th. 2 times more than Puerto Rico
30,517
Ranked 129th.
Manpower reaching military age annually > Females 69,108
Ranked 90th. 2 times more than Puerto Rico
29,010
Ranked 128th.
Manpower reaching military age annually > Females per thousand people 6.13
Ranked 174th.
7.8
Ranked 139th. 27% more than Cuba
Manpower reaching military age annually > Males 72,823
Ranked 89th. 2 times more than Puerto Rico
30,517
Ranked 129th.

Manpower reaching military age annually > Males per thousand people 6.46
Ranked 172nd.
8.32
Ranked 129th. 29% more than Cuba

Note the collapse of the Soviet Union deprived the Cuban military of its major economic and logistic support and had a significant impact on the state of Cuban equipment; the army remains well trained and professional in nature; while the lack of replacement parts for its existing equipment has increasingly affected operational capabilities, Cuba remains able to offer considerable resistance to any regional power defense is the responsibility of the US
Military branches Revolutionary Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, FAR): Revolutionary Army (Ejercito Revolucionario, ER, includes Territorial Militia Troops (Milicia de Tropas de Territoriales, MTT)); Revolutionary Navy (Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria, MGR, includes Marine Corps); Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Forces (Defensas Anti-Aereas y Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria, DAAFAR), Youth Labor Army (Ejercito Juvenil del Trabajo, EJT) no regular indigenous military forces; paramilitary National Guard, Police Force
War deaths 0.0
Ranked 81st.
0.0
Ranked 54th.

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Males per thousand people 6.58
Ranked 169th.
8.31
Ranked 130th. 26% more than Cuba
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Females per thousand people 6.13
Ranked 172nd.
7.8
Ranked 138th. 27% more than Cuba
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually > Females 69,108
Ranked 90th. 2 times more than Puerto Rico
29,010
Ranked 128th.
Note the collapse of the Soviet Union deprived the Cuban military of its major economic and logistic support and had a significant impact on the state of Cuban equipment; the army remains well trained and professional in nature; while the lack of replacement parts for its existing equipment has increasingly affected operational capabilities, Cuba remains able to offer considerable resistance to any regional power defense is the responsibility of the US
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females 76,014
Ranked 86th. 3 times more than Puerto Rico
29,469
Ranked 129th.
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females per 1000 6.73
Ranked 155th.
7.84
Ranked 135th. 16% more than Cuba
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females > Per capita 6.65 per 1,000 people
Ranked 173th.
7.45 per 1,000 people
Ranked 158th. 12% more than Cuba
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males > Per capita 7 per 1,000 people
Ranked 170th.
7.77 per 1,000 people
Ranked 156th. 11% more than Cuba

SOURCES: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Uppsala Conflict Data Program, http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/.

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