Military branches:
Australian Defense Force (ADF): Australian Army; Royal Australian Navy (includes Naval Aviation Force); Royal Australian Air Force; Joint Operations Command (JOC) (2013)
Military service age and obligation:
17 years of age for voluntary military service (with parental consent); no conscription; women allowed to serve in most combat roles, except the Army special forces (2013)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49:
5,316,464
females age 16-49:
5,116,722 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49:
4,411,958
females age 16-49:
4,239,985 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male:
143,565
female:
135,800 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Australia on this page is re-published from the 2015 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Australia Military 2015 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Australia Military 2015 should be addressed to the CIA.
1.71% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 51
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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This page was last modified 02-Mar-15