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Air force personnel 400 [48th of 49]
Air force personnel (per capita) 0.003 per 100 population [47th of 49]
Armed forces growth -7 [81st of 132]
Armed forces personnel 9,000 [110th of 166]
Armed forces personnel (per capita) 0.768836 per 1,000 people [132nd of 166]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ 2,000,000 constant 1990 US$ [88th of 100]
Arms imports > constant 1990 US$ (per capita) 0.219 constant 1990 US$ per c [141st of 170]
Army personnel 10,000 [43rd of 49]
Army personnel (per capita) 0.854263 per 1,000 people [41st of 49]

Branches
 Army, Senegalese Navy (Marine Senegalaise), Senegalese Air Force (Armee de l'Air du Senegal)

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Ratification 09 JUN 1999
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty > Signatures and Ratifications > Signature 26 SEP 1996
Conscription
Selective conscription.
expenditure > % of central government expenditure 9.7 % [23rd of 88]
expenditure > % of GDP 1.51 % [63rd of 145]
expenditure > current LCU 65469000000
Expenditures 1.4 % of GDP [56th of 87]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $107,300,000.00 [46th of 111]
Expenditures > Dollar figure (per $ GDP) $14.07 per 1,000 $ of GDP [51st of 111]
Expenditures > Dollar figure (per capita) $9.42 per capita [53rd of 111]
Expenditures > Percent of GDP 1.9% [50th of 154]
Gulf War Coalition Forces 500 [20th of 30]
Gulf War Coalition Forces (per capita) 0.043 per capita [15th of 30]
Manpower > Availability > Females 2,955,179 [63rd of 162]
Manpower > Availability > Males 2,943,619 [69th of 210]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 2,404,840 [80th of 175]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 2,490,290 [79th of 175]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 (per capita) 0.219 per capita [159th of 175]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 (per capita) 205.436 per 1,000 people [167th of 174]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Females 1,947,076 [67th of 162]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males 1,866,602 [75th of 210]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 1,301,761 [89th of 174]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 1,256,970 [90th of 174]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 (per capita) 0.114 per capita [159th of 174]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 (per capita) 107.379 per 1,000 people [162nd of 173]
Manpower > Military age 18 years of age
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females 139,541 [66th of 226]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Females (per capita) 10.856 per 1,000 people [66th of 225]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 141,832 [70th of 226]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males (per capita) 11.035 per 1,000 people [74th of 225]
Manpower available for military service > Females age 18-49 2,461,939 [45th of 120]
Manpower available for military service > Females age 18-49 (per capita) 0.197 per capita [88th of 120]
Manpower available for military service > Males age 18-49 2,443,840 [50th of 164]
Manpower available for military service > Males age 18-49 (per capita) 0.195 per capita [132nd of 164]
Manpower fit for military service > Females age 18-49 1,642,533 [48th of 119]
Manpower fit for military service > Females age 18-49 (per capita) 0.131 per capita [86th of 119]
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49 1,558,175 [52nd of 161]
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49 (per capita) 0.124 per capita [124th of 161]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Females age 18-49 129,398 [39th of 91]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 129,331 [57th of 157]
Navy personnel 600 [48th of 49]
Navy personnel (per capita) 0.0512558 per 1,000 people [47th of 49]
Ongoing conflicts > Start of Conflict 1988
personnel 19,000 [108th of 170]
personnel (per capita) 1.63 per 1,000 people [135th of 171]
personnel > % of total labor force 0.41 % [128th of 168]

Service age and obligation
 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 2 years

US military exports $4,606.00 thousand [30th of 109]
US military exports (per capita) $0.39 thousand per 1,000 peopl [43rd of 109]
Weapon holdings 48,000 [127th of 137]
Weapon holdings (per capita) 4,100.46 per 1 million people [128th 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; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Ongoing conflicts ; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Senegal, Republic of Senegal, Republique du Senegal

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