Military and security service personnel strengths | approximately 7,000 total active-duty personnel (5,000 Army; 1,500 Navy; 500 Air Force) (2024) |
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Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | since joining NATO, the military has been in the process of modernizing by retiring its inventory of Soviet-era weapons and replacing them with Western equipment, including donated and secondhand purchases (2023) |
Military service age and obligation | 18-27 (up to 32 in some cases) for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription abolished 2010 (2024). note: as of 2024, women comprised about 15% of the military's full-time personnel |
Military deployments | . |
Military expenditures | |
Military Expenditures 2024 | 2% of GDP (2024 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2023 | 1.7% of GDP (2023) |
Military Expenditures 2022 | 1.2% of GDP (2022) |
Military Expenditures 2021 | 1.2% of GDP (2021) |
Military Expenditures 2020 | 1.3% of GDP (2020) |
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