Military branches:
National Armed Forces (Nacionalo Brunoto Speku): Land Forces (Latvijas Sauszemes Speki), Navy (Latvijas Juras Speki; includes Coast Guard (Latvijas Kara Flotes)), Latvian Air Force (Latvijas Gaisa Speki), Latvian Home Guard (Latvijas Zemessardze) (2011)
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary male and female military service; no conscription; under current law, every citizen is entitled to serve in the armed forces for life (2012)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 546,090
[see also: Manpower available for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
540,810 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 401,691
[see also: Manpower fit for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
447,638 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 10,482
[see also: Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually - male country ranks ]
female:
9,858 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Latvia 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 Latvia Military 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Latvia Military 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
0.92% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 302
[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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