Military branches:
New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF): New Zealand Army; Royal New Zealand Navy; Royal New Zealand Air Force (Te Hokowhitu o Kahurangi, RNZAF) (2013)
Military service age and obligation:
17 years of age for voluntary military service; soldiers cannot be deployed until the age of 18; no conscription; 3 years of secondary education required; must be a citizen of NZ, the UK, Australia, Canada, or the US, and resident of NZ for the previous 5 years (2013)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 1,019,798
[see also: Manpower available for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
1,003,429 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 843,526
[see also: Manpower fit for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
828,779 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 30,846
[see also: Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually - male country ranks ]
female:
28,825 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding New Zealand 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 New Zealand Military 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about New Zealand Military 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
1.13% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 278
[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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