Military and security service personnel strengths | estimates vary widely, from approximately 150,000 to as many as 400,000 active military personnel (2023) |
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Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the Burmese military inventory is comprised mostly of older Chinese and Russian/Soviet-era equipment with a smaller mix of more modern acquisitions from a variety of countries; in recent years, China and Russia have been the leading suppliers of military hardware; Burma has a limited defense industry, including some shipbuilding and production of ground force equipment that is largely based on Chinese and Russian designs (2024) |
Military service age and obligation | 18-35 years of age (men) and 18-27 years of age (women) for voluntary and conscripted military service; 24-month service obligation; conscripted professional men (ages 18-45) and women (ages 18-35), including doctors, engineers, and mechanics, serve up to 36 months; service terms may be extended to 60 months in an officially declared emergency (2024). note: in February 2024, the military government announced that the People’s Military Service Law requiring mandatory military service would go into effect; the Service Law was first introduced in 2010 but had not previously been enforced; the military government also said that it intended to call up about 60,000 men and women annually for mandatory service; during the ongoing insurgency, the military has recruited men 18-60 to serve in local militias |
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Military Expenditures 2023 | 3.9% of GDP (2023 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2022 | 3.6% of GDP (2022 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2021 | 3.5% of GDP (2021 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2020 | 3% of GDP (2020 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2019 | 4.1% of GDP (2019 est.) |
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