Military branches: Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA)
Military service age and obligation:
18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service; the Government of South Sudan signed a revised action plan with the UN in March 2012 to demobilize all child soldiers within the SPLA; UNICEF reported 250 confirmed cases of the SPLA's association with children at the end of 2012 (2012)
Military expenditures:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding South Sudan 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 South Sudan Military 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about South Sudan Military 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
10.32% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 1
[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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