Military branches:
Rwanda Defense Force (RDF): Rwanda Army (Rwanda Land Force), Rwanda Air Force (Force Aerienne Rwandaise, FAR) (2013)
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; Rwandan citizenship is required, as is a 9th grade education for enlisted recruits and an A-level certificate for officer candidates; enlistment is either as contract (5-years, renewable twice) or career; retirement (for officers and senior NCOs) after 20 years of service or at 40-60 years of age (2012)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 2,625,917
[see also: Manpower available for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
2,608,110 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 1,685,066
[see also: Manpower fit for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
1,749,580 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 110,736
[see also: Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually - male country ranks ]
female:
110,328 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Rwanda 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 Rwanda Military 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Rwanda Military 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
1.12% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 260
[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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