Military and security service personnel strengths | information varies; estimated 30-35,000 active FAN troops; estimated 5-10,000 paramilitary Gendarmerie and National Guard personnel (2024) |
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Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the FAN's inventory consists of a wide variety of older weapons, including French, Russian, and Soviet era; in recent years, it has received small amounts of mostly secondhand equipment from several countries, including China, Egypt, and the US (2023) |
Military service age and obligation | 18 is the legal minimum age for selective compulsory or voluntary military service for unmarried men and women; 24-month service term (2023). |
Military deployments | Niger has committed about 1,000 troops to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border; national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own country territories, although cross‐border operations are conducted periodically (2024). |
Military expenditures | |
Military Expenditures 2023 | 2% of GDP (2023 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2022 | 1.7% of GDP (2022 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2021 | 1.8% of GDP (2021 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2020 | 2% of GDP (2020 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2019 | 1.7% of GDP (2019 est.) |
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