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Saudi Arabia Military 2015
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SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES
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Saudi Arabia Military 2015
SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

Page last updated on June 20, 2014

Military branches:
Ministry of Defense and Aviation Forces: Royal Saudi Land Forces, Royal Saudi Naval Forces (includes Marine Forces and Special Forces), Royal Saudi Air Force (Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Malakiya as-Sa'udiya), Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces, Royal Saudi Strategic Rocket Forces, Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG)

Military service age and obligation:
17 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2012)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 8,644,522
females age 16-49: 6,601,985 (2010 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 7,365,624
females age 16-49: 5,677,819 (2010 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 261,105
female: 244,763 (2010 est.)

Military expenditures:
7.98% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 3
7.25% of GDP (2011)
7.98% of GDP (2010)
[see also: Military expenditures country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Saudi Arabia 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 Saudi Arabia Military 2015 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Saudi Arabia Military 2015 should be addressed to the CIA.
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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