Military and security service personnel strengths | approximately 16,000 active personnel (12,000 Army; 2,000 Navy; 2,000 Air Force) (2024) |
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Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the military's inventory is a mix of older and some newer Russian, Chinese, and Western (including US) weapons and equipment; the government in recent years has committed to an increase in funding for equipment acquisitions, including armor, mechanized, and special forces capabilities for the Army, light attack aircraft for the Air Force, and more modern coastal patrol vessels for the Navy (2024) |
Military service age and obligation | 18-27 years of age for voluntary military service, with basic education certificate; no conscription (2024). note: as of 2024, women comprised approximately 15% of the military; Ghanaian women first began serving in the late 1950s |
Military deployments | 875 Lebanon (UNIFIL); 725 (plus about 275 police) South Sudan (UNMISS); 670 Sudan (UNISFA) (2024). note: since sending a contingent of troops to the Congo in 1960, the military has been a regular contributor to African- and UN-sponsored peacekeeping missions |
Military expenditures | |
Military Expenditures 2023 | 0.4% of GDP (2023 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2022 | 0.4% of GDP (2022 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2021 | 0.5% of GDP (2021 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2020 | 0.4% of GDP (2020 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2019 | 0.4% of GDP (2019 est.) |
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