Military branches: Uruguayan Armed Forces: Uruguayan National Army (Ejercito Nacional Uruguaya, ENU), Uruguayan National Navy (Armada Nacional del Uruguay; includes naval air arm, Naval Rifle Corps (Cuerpo de Fusileros Navales, Fusna), Maritime Prefecture in wartime), Uruguayan Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Uruguaya, FAU) (2012)
Military service age and obligation:
18-30 years of age (18-22 years of age for navy) for male or female voluntary military service; up to 40 years of age for specialists; enlistment is voluntary in peacetime, but the government has the authority to conscript in emergencies; minimum 6-year education (2013)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 771,159
[see also: Manpower available for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
780,932 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 649,025
[see also: Manpower fit for military service - male country ranks ]
females age 16-49:
654,903 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 27,564
[see also: Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually - male country ranks ]
female:
26,811 (2010 est.)
Military expenditures:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Uruguay 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 Uruguay Military 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Uruguay Military 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
1.95% of GDP (2012)
country comparison to the world: 133
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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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