Military and security service personnel strengths | approximately 80,000 active-duty personnel (50,000 Army; 17,000 Navy, including about 3,500 marines); 13,000 Air Force); estimated 20,000 Gendarmerie (2023) |
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Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the inventory of Argentina's armed forces is a mix of domestically-produced and mostly older imported weapons, largely from Europe and the US; in recent years, France and the US have been the leading suppliers of equipment; Argentina has an indigenous defense industry that produces air, land, and naval systems (2024) |
Military service age and obligation | 18-24 years of age for voluntary military service for men and women; conscription suspended in 1995; citizens can still be drafted in times of crisis, national emergency, or war, or if the Defense Ministry is unable to fill all vacancies to keep the military functional (2024). note: as of 2023, women comprised nearly 20% of the active duty military |
Military deployments | 325 Cyprus (UNFICYP) (2024). |
Military expenditures | |
Military Expenditures 2024 | 0.8% of GDP (2024 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2023 | 0.5% of GDP (2023 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2022 | 0.6% of GDP (2022 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2021 | 0.8% of GDP (2021 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2020 | 0.8% of GDP (2020 est.) |
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