Military and security service personnel strengths | information varies; approximately 95,000 active-duty personnel (60,000 Army; 25,000 Navy, including about 4,000 naval infantry and 1,000 Coast Guard; 10,000 Air Force) (2023) |
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Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the military has a broad mix of mostly older but some more modern equipment from a range of suppliers, including Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the former Soviet Union, South Korea, and the US; some deliveries have been secondhand weapons systems; Peru has a small defense industry, including a shipyard that builds and upgrades naval vessels; it also has defense industrial cooperation agreements with several countries, including Russia, South Korea, Spain, and the US (2024) |
Military service age and obligation | 18-30 years of age for voluntary military service (12 months); no conscription (abolished in 1999) (2023). note: as of 2019, women made up about 10% of the active duty military |
Military deployments | 225 Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (2024). |
Military expenditures | |
Military Expenditures 2023 | 1% of GDP (2023 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2022 | 1.1% of GDP (2022 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2021 | 1.1% of GDP (2021 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2020 | 1.2% of GDP (2020 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2019 | 1.2% of GDP (2019 est.) |
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