Military branches:
Kenya Defence Forces: Kenya Army, Kenya Air Force, Kenya Navy (2012)
Military service age and obligation:
18-26 years of age for male and female voluntary service (under 18 with parental consent), with a 9-year obligation (7 years for Kenyan Navy); applicants must be Kenyan citizens and provide a national identity card (obtained at age 18) and a school-leaving certificate; women serve under the same terms and conditions as men; mandatory retirement at age 55 (2012)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 9,768,140
[see also: Manpower available for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
9,466,257 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 6,361,268
[see also: Manpower fit for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
6,106,870 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 422,104
[see also: Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually - male country ranks ]
female:
416,927 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Kenya on this page is re-published from the 2014 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kenya Military 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kenya Military 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
1.96% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 131
[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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