Military branches:
Army of the Nation, Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile, includes Naval Aviation, Marine Corps, and Maritime Territory and Merchant Marine Directorate (Directemar)), Chilean Air Force (Fuerza Aerea de Chile, FACh), Carabineros Corps (Cuerpo de Carabineros) (2011)
Military service age and obligation:
18-45 years of age for voluntary male and female military service, although the right to compulsory recruitment of males 18-45 is retained; service obligation is 12 months for Army and 22 months for Navy and Air Force (2012)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49:
4,324,732
females age 16-49:
4,251,954 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49:
3,621,475
females age 16-49:
3,561,099 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male:
141,500
female:
135,709 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Chile 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 Chile Military 2015 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Chile Military 2015 should be addressed to the CIA.
2.04% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 38
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]
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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 10-Feb-15